Severin Lemaignan Severin.Lemaignan@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Social Robotics and AI
“It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children
Lemaignan, Séverin; Newbutt, Nigel; Rice, Louis; Daly, Joe
Authors
Nigel Newbutt Nigel.Newbutt@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Digital Education
Louis Rice Louis.Rice@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Architecture
Joe Daly
Abstract
For a period of 3 weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school for autistic children. The robot’s behaviours and integration into the school were co-designed with the children and teachers, with a focus on improving the well-being of the pupils. Using a mix-method approach, we studied the robot’s adoption over the course of the study, and the impact of the robot’s presence on the children well-being and the school ecosystem. We found that the robot successfully integrated within the school; it fostered and maintained a steady level of interactions (330 interactions, 16h of continuous use over 3weeks) with a small yet meaningful group of children with a positive impact on their well-being; and it led to a nuanced conversation with the students and school staff about the role and impact of such a social technology in a SEN school.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 8, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 31, 2022 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Oct 17, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 31, 2022 |
Journal | International Journal of Social Robotics |
Print ISSN | 1875-4791 |
Electronic ISSN | 1875-4805 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 1083–1104 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00928-4 |
Keywords | Social robotics; Responsible AI; Autism; Child–robot interaction; Participatory design; Well-being |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10091175 |
Publisher URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-022-00928-4 |
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