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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 / No. 1: Thirtieth AAAI Conference On Artificial Intelligence

Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills

March 8, 2023

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Authors

Goren Gordon

Tel Aviv-University


Samuel Spaulding

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Jacqueline Kory Westlund

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Jin Joo Lee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Luke Plummer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Marayna Martinez

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Madhurima Das

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Cynthia Breazeal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


DOI:

10.1609/aaai.v30i1.9914


Abstract:

Though substantial research has been dedicated towards using technology to improve education, no current methods are as effective as one-on-one tutoring. A critical, though relatively understudied, aspect of effective tutoring is modulating the student's affective state throughout the tutoring session in order to maximize long-term learning gains. We developed an integrated experimental paradigm in which children play a second-language learning game on a tablet, in collaboration with a fully autonomous social robotic learning companion. As part of the system, we measured children's valence and engagement via an automatic facial expression analysis system. These signals were combined into a reward signal that fed into the robot's affective reinforcement learning algorithm. Over several sessions, the robot played the game and personalized its motivational strategies (using verbal and non-verbal actions) to each student. We evaluated this system with 34 children in preschool classrooms for a duration of two months. We saw that (1) children learned new words from the repeated tutoring sessions, (2) the affective policy personalized to students over the duration of the study, and (3) students who interacted with a robot that personalized its affective feedback strategy showed a significant increase in valence, as compared to students who interacted with a non-personalizing robot. This integrated system of tablet-based educational content, affective sensing, affective policy learning, and an autonomous social robot holds great promise for a more comprehensive approach to personalized tutoring.

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Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 (2016) .

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills AAAI 2016, .

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal (2016). Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, .

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal. Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 2016 p..

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal. 2016. Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills. "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30". .

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal. (2016) "Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, p.

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal, "Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills", AAAI, p., 2016.

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal. "Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, 2016, p..

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal. "Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, (2016): .

Goren Gordon|| Samuel Spaulding|| Jacqueline Kory Westlund|| Jin Joo Lee|| Luke Plummer|| Marayna Martinez|| Madhurima Das|| Cynthia Breazeal. Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills. AAAI[Internet]. 2016[cited 2023]; .


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