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ERIKA—Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age

  • In this work, we report on our attempt to design and implement an early introduction to basic robotics principles for children at kindergarten age. One of the main challenges of this effort is to explain complex robotics contents in a way that pre-school children could follow the basic principles and ideas using examples from their world of experience. What sets apart our effort from other work is that part of the lecturing is actually done by a robot itself and that a quiz at the end of the lesson is done using robots as well. The humanoid robot Pepper from Softbank, which is a great platform for human–robot interaction experiments, was used to present a lecture on robotics by reading out the contents to the children making use of its speech synthesis capability. A quiz in a Runaround-game-show style after the lecture activated the children to recap the contents they acquired about how mobile robots work in principle. In this quiz, two LEGO Mindstorm EV3 robots were used to implement a strongly interactive scenario. Besides the thrill of being exposed to a mobile robot that would also react to the children, they were very excited and at the same time very concentrated. We got very positive feedback from the children as well as from their educators. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of only few attempts to use a robot like Pepper not as a tele-teaching tool, but as the teacher itself in order to engage pre-school children with complex robotics contents.

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Author:Stefan SchifferORCiD, Alexander FerreinORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2040064
ISSN:2414-4088
Parent Title (English):Multimodal Technologies Interact
Publisher:MDPI
Place of publication:Basel
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2018
Date of first Publication:2018/10/05
Date of the Publication (Server):2018/10/05
Volume:2
Issue:4
Length:15
Link:http://doi.org/10.3390/mti2040064
Zugriffsart:weltweit
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
collections:Verlag / MDPI
Open Access / Gold