Abstract:

The proposed presentation describes the first results of the BMBF financed projects H.E.A.R.T. and RoboPraX at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. The project studies didactic possibilities of social robots in teaching at school and university level. The overall research goal of the project is to develop guidelines which enable educational institutions to use the developments in digitisation and robotics to their advantage. The project team develops applications and assesses their implementation in teaching. Furthermore, robots are used as teaching tools and as teaching assistants. The exploratory research uses a realistic setting (i.e. different courses on linguistics, school workshops etc.) for their implementation tests and evaluates students’ responses to this new teaching tool through observation and qualitative questionnaires.

The presentation focuses on didactic possibilities, speech related issues and advantages. The applications that have been developed so far will be presented as well as the in-class experience (including technical difficulties and implemented advancements), results from the student responses and outlook to further development plans.

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Keywords:

Robotics, didactics, digitisation, university, school, social robots, humanoid robots, linguistics.