Psychological effects of educational-support robots using an emotional expression model

Abstract

With the growth of robot technology, robots that assist learning have attracted increasing attention. However, users tend to lose their interest in these educational-support robots. To solve this problem, human-agent interaction studies have proposed a model of emotional expressions. Nevertheless, this model, in which the agent expresses his/her emotions as autonomous emotions, has proved to be effective for interactions between agents and humans. Thus, this paper examines how psychological effect of robot which expresses the emotion by using the model of emotional expressions can prompt learners in a collaborative learning.