The Educational Value of Artificial Intelligence and Social Robots
摘要
Social robots are embodied agents and social entities that follow an anthropomorphic design have social forms and functions and can engage in social interactions with humans and other robots in an interpersonal manner as well as understand and even relate to them. Additionally, social robots are regarded as affective entities due to their ability to understand and express changes in emotions and moods and their socio-cognitive skills and social-emotional intelligence. Social robots are closely related to the field of artificial intelligence. As a result, social robots are being applied in different domains including education. This chapter aims to explore the use of social robots and artificial intelligence in education to identify their educational values and merits. The outcomes of this study highlighted the role of intelligent social robots as meaningful and effective educational tools that can be used in various educational settings and contexts in both formal and informal settings to support both teachers and students. Their ability to act as intelligent human-like tutors to offer personalized learning experiences that take students’ unique characteristics, needs, knowledge, and preferences into account emerged. As a result, social robots have the potential to improve students’ learning outcomes, engagement, and motivation, improve their academic performance, and increase their social skills. Nonetheless, the study also highlighted the need for more experimental studies to be conducted, for appropriate standards and guidelines to be developed, and for security, ethical, and moral issues relevant to the use of social robots to be further examined.