<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Movellan, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eckhardt, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Virnes, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodriguez, A</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sociable robot improves toddler vocabulary skills</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Algorithms</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">autonomously operated robot</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Early Childhood Education Center</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Educational institutions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Educational robots</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Games</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human factors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Human-robot interaction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">intervention period</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pediatrics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robot sensing systems</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">robotics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sociable robot</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social aspects of automation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">time 2 week</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">toddler vocabulary skills</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ubiquitous computering</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vocabulary</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">03/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">La Jolla, CA</style></pub-location><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-1-60558-404-1</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588);&quot;&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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