Educational robots as promotors of cultural development

Francisco Cuéllar; Christian Peñaloza; Alexander López

doi:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451849

Educational robots as promotors of cultural development

Francisco Cuéllar
, Christian Peñaloza
, Alexander López

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Abstract

The use of robots as educational tools has demonstrated to be highly efective for attracting students to science and technology related academic fields. Although these academic fields are very important, we believe that other subjects such as language, music, arts, literature, history, etc., are also essential for future generations. For this reason, the goal of this research is to explore the potential use of robots as educational tools for non-technology related fields such as history. We discuss an alternative approach for designing robots inspired in traits and characteristics of historical figures that play an important role in the topic to be studied. We present some examples of conceptual designs of robots inspired in ancient gods of Mesoamerican and South American cultures. We discuss how some of the traits of ancient gods could serve as inspiration for the appearance design of commercial robots, and how these robots could be used in educational environments to attract the attention of students to learn about this history topic.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	547
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467383707
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451849
State	Indexed - 12 Apr 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016 - Christchurch, New Zealand Duration: 7 Mar 2016 → 10 Mar 2016

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Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Volume	2016-April
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-2148

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Conference	11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Christchurch
Period	7/03/16 → 10/03/16

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Keywords

Ancient cultures
Education
History
Humanoids
Robots

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Cuéllar, F, Peñaloza, C & López, A 2016, Educational robots as promotors of cultural development. in HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction., 7451849, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 2016-April, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 547, 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451849

Educational robots as promotors of cultural development. / Cuéllar, Francisco; Peñaloza, Christian; López, Alexander.
HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, 2016. p. 547 7451849 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction; Vol. 2016-April).

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