How an Educational Robot Should Look Like: The Students' Perspective

摘要

In the last decade, there is a growing demand for educational robots in consumer electronics. This can be observed from the high promotion educational robots get from crowd-funding platforms, where more than 2000 projects have been funded successfully. Lego, Robolink, Hanson Robotics, Modular Robotics, and Primo Toys are only a few companies that disrupt education. Using robotic platforms like these, students now learn through experiences and structure their knowledge under the Constructivist approaches that modern education promotes. The teacher is not the leading actor anymore but more like a guide on the students' path on learning development. The robotic platform is now a vital aspect of the students' development. Thus, huge research is being undertaken on each company's construction, characteristics, and morphology to give to their product. This should not come in random, but on the contrary should be examined under the requirements of the ones they will use it, the students/children. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the characteristics a robot should have and the way of interaction and socialization with it, as the students are seeking and expecting it. This could provide the attributes and standards of constructing the perfect model for the students to acquire what they are pursuing in a more effective, exciting manner without losing their motivation.