Robot-Mediated Learning: Exploring School-Deployed Collaborative Robots for Homebound Children

机器人介导的学习：探索学校为居家儿童部署的协作机器人

• 批准号: 2024933
• 负责人: Veronica Ahumada-Newhart
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024933&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Robot; Mediated; Learning; Exploring; Deployed

Over 2.5 million children in the US are medically homebound. They are socially isolated, physically segregated, and current educational practices largely exclude them from their school communities. Telepresence robots have emerged as a possible means to support these children to return to their local schools, however, it is not yet understood how homebound children can effectively use these robots for optimal learning and social development experiences. The goal of this project is to advance robot-mediated learning in schools, and investigate how co-robots can facilitate optimal learning experiences. The investigators will 1) Identify best practices and guidelines for the use of embodied co-robots in schools to best facilitate learning and social development; 2) Design new inclusive interfaces and control modalities for homebound children to use mobile telemanipulators, and 3) Pioneer new inclusive robotics curricula to support children with disabilities entering the STEM workforce. This project will yield new knowledge in multiple fields, including human-robot interaction, education, and healthcare. This project will also promote the progress of science by exploring how to make mobile telemanipulators accessible to people with disabilities, including new insights in the creation of future robot systems that can be dynamically reconfigured by end users without requiring domain expertise. This work will benefit society through insights into robot-mediated interaction which can extend to other domains, such as telemedicine, telehealth, and others who experience barriers to remaining socially connected to their real-world communities. The results of this project will bring to the forefront societal, educational, fiscal, and ethical issues concerning human-operated co-robots in public spaces, and explore new ways to be inclusive of students underrepresented both in society at large as well as in STEM fields. This project will inform several key research questions including: 1) Identifying robot-mediated learning tasks that contribute to optimal learning; 2) Creating best practices and guidelines that incorporate social norms for daily co-robot interactions; 3) Designing new accessible, adaptable, and usable control modalities for mobile telemanipulation for homebound children; 4) Leveraging interaction with an embodied co-robot to motivate interest in STEM, with a particular focus on medically homebound children and children with disabilities. The project will employ a case study research methodology, exploring stakeholder interconnectedness in the robot-mediated learning experience. The project will consist of 48 case studies, where each case will typically consist of 22 participants: a homebound child, a parent, a teacher, 18 classmates, and a school administrator. Multiple sources of data will be used, consisting of direct observations, semi-structured interviews, surveys, and focus groups. Transcripts from interviews, observation notes, and survey responses will undergo open-coding to identify commonalities/differences within and between cases. The themes and concepts that emerge from the analysis will be repeatedly compared with the data to ensure their validity. The research team will work with homebound children to co-design accessible and adaptable control interfaces to reflect the unique educational and social needs of this population.This project is funded by the National Robotics Initiative 2.0: Ubiquitous Collaborative Robots (NRI-2.0) program, and the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.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.

在美国，有超过250万儿童在医学上。他们在社会上是孤立的，身体上的隔离，并且当前的教育实践在很大程度上将它们排除在学校社区之外。电视机器人已成为支持这些孩子返回当地学校的一种可能手段，但是，尚不理解家居儿童如何有效地将这些机器人用于最佳学习和社会发展经验。该项目的目的是推进学校中的机器人介导的学习，并研究共同机器人如何促进最佳学习经验。调查人员将1）确定在学校中使用具体的共同事件的最佳实践和准则，以最好地促进学习和社会发展； 2）设计新的包含界面和控制式儿童使用移动远程计算器的方式，3）先驱新的包容性机器人课程，以支持进入STEM劳动力的残疾儿童。该项目将在包括人类机器人互动，教育和医疗保健在内的多个领域中产生新知识。该项目还将通过探索如何使残疾人访问的移动远程计算器来促进科学的进步，包括创建未来机器人系统的新见解，这些见解可以由最终用户可以动态地重新配置，而无需域专业知识。这项工作将通过对机器人介导的互动的见解来使社会受益，这些互动可以扩展到其他领域，例如远程医疗，远程医疗以及其他遇到与现实世界社区保持社会联系的障碍的人。该项目的结果将使有关公共空间中人类经营的共同机器人的社会，教育，财政和道德问题成为最前沿的社会，并探索新的方式，以包括整个社会和STEM领域中代表性不足的学生。该项目将为几个关键的研究问题提供信息：1）确定有助于最佳学习的机器人介导的学习任务； 2）创建最佳实践和准则，以结合日常共同机器人互动的社会规范； 3）设计新的可访问，适应性和可用的控制方式，用于用于居住儿童的移动远程注射； 4）利用与体现的共同企业的互动来激发对STEM的兴趣，特别关注医学上的家乡儿童和残疾儿童。该项目将采用案例研究方法论，探索机器人介导的学习经验中利益相关者的相互联系。该项目将包括48个案例研究，每个案例通常由22名参与者组成：一个家里的孩子，父母，老师，18个同学和一名学校管理员。 将使用多个数据源，包括直接观察，半结构化访谈，调查和焦点小组。访谈，观察说明和调查回答中的成绩单将进行开放编码，以确定案件之间和案例之间的共同点/差异。从分析中出现的主题和概念将与数据反复进行比较，以确保它们的有效性。研究团队将与家里的儿童合作，共同设计可访问和适应能力的控制界面，以反映该人群的独特教育和社会需求。该项目由国家机器人倡议2.0：无处不在的协作机器人（NRI-2.0）计划（NRI-2.0）计划以及为撰写学生（ITEST）的计划的创新技术经验而提供的，以支持学生（ITEST）的创新技术，以支持学生（ITEST）的创新技术，从而支持学生（ITEST）的创新技术。增加学生对科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）以及信息与通信技术（ICT）职业的知识和兴趣。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估评估来获得支持的。