Artificial companions as personal coach for children

摘要

The MOCA Project that aims at designing and studying the interaction and relationship between artificial companions and children in everyday life at home activities. Artificial companions are digital embodied entities that can be either robotic or virtual. In this paper, we focus on a single activity, subpart of the whole project: a coaching application that uses two artificial companions to teach the basics of drums to children. One device is a Nao robot, the other is a virtual agent. This application offers a wide variety of interaction situation that will enable us to conduct several experiments. Future directions are discussed, in terms of user-computer interaction and in terms of coaching and e-learning applications.