@conference {63,
	title = {Sociable robot improves toddler vocabulary skills},
	booktitle = {2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
	year = {2009},
	month = {03/2009},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {La Jolla, CA},
	abstract = {<p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: {\textquoteright}Lucida Grande{\textquoteright}, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588);">We report results of a study in which a low cost sociable robot was immersed at an Early Childhood Education Center for a period of 2 weeks. The study was designed to investigate whether the robot, which operated fully autonomously during the intervention period, could improve target vocabulary skills of 18-24 month of age toddlers. The results showed a 27\% improvement in knowledge of the target words taught by the robot when compared to a matched set of control words. The results suggest that sociable robots may be an effective and low cost technology to enrich Early Childhood Education environments.</span></p>
},
	keywords = {Algorithms, autonomously operated robot, Early Childhood Education Center, Educational institutions, Educational robots, Games, human factors, Human-robot interaction, intervention period, Pediatrics, Robot sensing systems, robotics, sociable robot, social aspects of automation, time 2 week, toddler vocabulary skills, Ubiquitous computering, Vocabulary},
	isbn = {978-1-60558-404-1},
	author = {Movellan, J. and Eckhardt, M. and Virnes, M. and Rodriguez, A}
}