Humanoid robots as teaching assistants in an Arab school

Omar Mubin; Marian Alhashmi Rama; Rama Baroud; Fady S. Alnajjar

doi:10.1145/3369457.3369517

Humanoid robots as teaching assistants in an Arab school

Omar Mubin, Marian Alhashmi Rama, Rama Baroud, Fady S. Alnajjar

Western Sydney University

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![CDATA[The proliferation of educational robots has led to an investigation of suitable roles that humanoids robots can take in the classroom. In the recent past, the focus has been on humanoids being used in student focused roles or as peer learners. Coupled with the seemingly absence of any case studies of educational robots in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or the Arab world, we present a study where we employed the Nao robot as a teaching assistant in a local primary school in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Nao robot was used to revise a topic in Mathematics and its efficacy in comparison to a human teaching assistant was measured through pre and post test scores, facial expressions and indirect verbal responses. Our results showed that while there no significant differences in test scores, the children were much more engaged when interacting with the Nao robot. We conclude with a positive outlook towards the implementation of humanoid robots in UAE classrooms.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (ozCHI'19), 2-5 December 2019, Perth/Fremantle, WA, Australia
Publisher	The Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	462-466
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781450376969
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369517
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction - Duration: 2 Dec 2019 → …

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Conference	Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
Period	2/12/19 → …

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United Arab Emirates
aids and devices
educational technology
human-robot interaction
robots
teaching

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Mubin, O, Rama, MA, Baroud, R & Alnajjar, FS 2019, Humanoid robots as teaching assistants in an Arab school. in Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (ozCHI'19), 2-5 December 2019, Perth/Fremantle, WA, Australia. The Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 462-466, Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2/12/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369517

Humanoid robots as teaching assistants in an Arab school. / Mubin, Omar; Rama, Marian Alhashmi; Baroud, Rama et al.
Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (ozCHI'19), 2-5 December 2019, Perth/Fremantle, WA, Australia. The Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 462-466.

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