"It's Not a Replacement:" Enabling Parent-Robot Collaboration to Support In-Home Learning Experiences of Young Children
<|reference_start|>"It's Not a Replacement:" Enabling Parent-Robot Collaboration to Support In-Home Learning Experiences of Young Children: Learning companion robots for young children are increasingly adopted in informal learning environments. Although parents play a pivotal role in their children's learning, very little is known about how parents prefer to incorporate robots into their children's learning activities. We developed prototype capabilities for a learning companion robot to deliver educational prompts and responses to parent-child pairs during reading sessions and conducted in-home user studies involving 10 families with children aged 3-5. Our data indicates that parents want to work with robots as collaborators to augment parental activities to foster children's learning, introducing the notion of parent-robot collaboration. Our findings offer an empirical understanding of the needs and challenges of parent-child interaction in informal learning scenarios and design opportunities for integrating a companion robot into these interactions. We offer insights into how robots might be designed to facilitate parent-robot collaboration, including parenting policies, collaboration patterns, and interaction paradigms.<|reference_end|>
@article{ho2024"it's,
    title={"It's Not a Replacement:" Enabling Parent-Robot Collaboration to Support
  In-Home Learning Experiences of Young Children},
    author={Hui-Ru Ho, Edward Hubbard, Bilge Mutlu},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14041},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1145/3613904.3642806},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.14041},
    primaryClass={cs.HC cs.RO}
}