Collaborative Research: A Social Programmable Robot: Fostering Rapport to Improve Computer Science Skills and Attitudes

协作研究：社交可编程机器人：培养融洽关系以提高计算机科学技能和态度

• 批准号: 1935801
• 负责人: Erin Walker
• 金额: $ 98.67万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-20 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935801&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Social; Programmable; Robot

This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants. The project will research the educational impact of social robots in informal learning environments, with applications to how social robots can improve participation and engagement of middle-school girls in out-of-school computer science programs in under-resourced rural and urban areas. The use of robots to improve STEM outcomes has focused on having learners program robots as tools to accomplish tasks (e.g., play soccer). An alternate approach views robots as social actors that can respond intelligently to users. By designing a programmable robot with social characteristics, the project aims to create a culturally-responsive curriculum for Latina, African American, and Native American girls who have been excluded by approaches that separate technical skill and social interaction. The knowledge produced by this project related to the use and benefits of social programmable robots has the potential to impact the many after-school and weekend programs that attempt to engage learners in STEM ideas using programmable robot curricula.The project robot, named Cozmo, will be programmed using a visual programming language and will convey emotion with facial expressions, sounds, and movements. Middle school girls will engage in programming activities, collaborative reflection, and interact with college women mentors trained to facilitate the course. The project will investigate whether the socially expressive Cozmo improves computer science outcomes such as attitudes, self-efficacy, and knowledge among the middle school female participants differently than the non-social version. The project will also investigate whether adding rapport-building dialogue to Cozmo enhances these outcomes (e.g., when a learner succeeds in getting Cozmo to move, Cozmo can celebrate, saying "I can move! You're amazing!"). These questions will be examined research conducted with participants in multi-session after-school courses facilitated by Girl Scout troops in Arizona. The project will disseminate project research and resources widely by sharing research findings in educational and learning science journals; creating a website with open source code for programming social robots; and making project curriculum and related guidelines available to Girl Scouts and other educational programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

开发项目中的这一创新是由非正式的STEM学习（AISL）计划资助的，该计划旨在推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大对STEM学习经验的访问和参与度，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究，并发展参与者对更深入学习的理解。该项目将研究社会机器人在非正式学习环境中的教育影响，并应用社会机器人如何改善中学女孩参与和参与资源不足的农村和城市地区的校外计算机科学计划。使用机器人来改善茎结果的重点是让学习者计划机器人作为完成任务的工具（例如，踢足球）。另一种方法将机器人视为可以对用户智能响应的社会参与者。通过设计具有社会特征的可编程机器人，该项目旨在为拉丁裔，非裔美国人和美洲原住民女孩创建一种具有文化响应的课程，这些课程被分开技术技能和社会互动的方法所排除。该项目与社交可编程机器人的使用和好处有关的知识有可能影响许多尝试使用可编程的机器人课程吸引学习者参与STEM思想的课程和周末计划。名为Cozmo的项目机器人将使用视觉节目语言进行编程，并以面部表情，声音和动作来传达情感。中学女孩将从事编程活动，合作反思，并与接受促进课程的大学女性导师进行互动。该项目将调查社会表现力的科兹莫（Cozmo）是否改善了中学女性参与者的态度，自我效能和知识等计算机科学成果与非社会版本的方式不同。该项目还将调查添加融洽的建设对话Cozmo是否可以增强这些结果（例如，当学习者成功地让Cozmo搬家时，Cozmo可以庆祝，说“我可以搬家！您很棒！”）。这些问题将与亚利桑那女童子军促进的多课后课程的参与者进行研究。该项目将通过共享教育和学习科学期刊中的研究结果来广泛传播项目研究和资源；使用用于编程社交机器人的开源代码创建网站；该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，将项目课程和相关指南提供给NSF的法定任务。

项目成果

“I Want to Be Unique From Other Robots”: Positioning Girls as Co-creators of Social Robots in Culturally-Responsive Computing Education

“我想在其他机器人中脱颖而出”：将女孩定位为文化响应式计算教育中社交机器人的共同创造者

• DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581272
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23
• 作者: Li, Yinmiao;Nwogu, Jennifer;Buddemeyer, Amanda;Solyst, Jaemarie;Lee, Jina;Walker, Erin;Ogan, Amy;Stewart, Angela E.B.
• 通讯作者: Stewart, Angela E.B.

Running an Online Synchronous Culturally Responsive Computing Camp for Middle School Girls

为中学生举办在线同步文化响应计算营

• DOI: 10.1145/3502718.3524747
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
• 作者: Solyst, Jaemarie;Nkrumah, Tara;Stewart, Angela;Buddemeyer, Amanda;Walker, Erin;Ogan, Amy
• 通讯作者: Ogan, Amy