Italy

Social robots have been introduced in different fields such as retail, health care and education. Primary education in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) recently faced new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines including students falling behind and teachers burdened with high workloads. Together with two Dutch municipalities and nine primary schools we are exploring the long-term use of social robots to study how social robots might support teachers in primary education, with a focus on mathematics education. This paper presents an explorative study to define requirements for a social robot math tutor.
Multiple focus groups were held with the two main stakeholders, namely teachers and students. During the focus groups the aim was 1) to understand the current situation of mathematics
education in the upper primary school level, 2) to identify the problems that teachers and students encounter in mathematics education, and 3) to identify opportunities for deploying a social robot math tutor in primary education from the perspective of both the teachers and students. The results inform the development of social robots and opportunities for pedagogical methods used in math teaching, child-robot interaction and potential support for teachers in the classroom.

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Don&#39;t Get into Trouble! Risk-aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles

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31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
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Don't Get into Trouble! Risk-aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles

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A Literature Review of Trust Repair in HRI

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Privacy Expectations for Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interactions

Physical Touch from a Robot Caregiver: Examining Factors that Shape Patient Experience

Robot-mediated Group Instruction for Children with ASD: A Pilot Study

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