The Implementation of Care-Receiving Robot at an English Learning School for Children

摘要

A Care-Receiving Robot (CRR) is a robot which is designed so as to be taken care of by humans. The original concept of CRR and its application to reinforce children's learning by teaching was proposed by [4]. In contrast to the conventional use of 'childcare robots' which play the role of care-givers (taking care of children), here we will introduce a reverse scenario where a robot is a care-receiver (being taken care of by children). The framework is presupposed to be promising not only because it could accelerate children's spontaneous active learning by teaching but also because it would be considered as being ethically safer and acceptable to a wider range of societies. This paper reports our pilot trials whose goal is to implement CRR at an English learning school for children. From the trials we have already observed that the robot we implemented induced children's care-taking behaviors.