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      Bayesian Active Learning-Based Robot Tutor for Children's Word-Reading Skills

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      Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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          Effective tutoring requires personalization of the interaction to each student.Continuous and efficient assessment of the student's skills are a prerequisite for such personalization.We developed a Bayesian active-learning algorithm that continuously and efficiently assesses a child's word-reading skills and implemented it in a social robot.We then developed an integrated experimental paradigm in which a child plays a novel story-creation tablet game with the robot.The robot is portrayed as a younger peer who wishes to learn to read, framing the assessment of the child's word-reading skills as well as empowering the child.We show that our algorithm results in an accurate representation of the child's word-reading skills for a large age range, 4-8 year old children, and large initial reading skill range.We also show that employing child-specific assessment-based tutoring results in an age- and initial reading skill-independent learning, compared to random tutoring.Finally, our integrated system enables us to show that implementing the same learning algorithm on the robot's reading skills results in knowledge that is comparable to what the child thinks the robot has learned.The child's perception of the robot's knowledge is age-dependent and may facilitate an indirect assessment of the development of theory-of-mind.

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          Journal
          Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
          AAAI
          Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
          2374-3468
          2159-5399
          March 01 2015
          February 16 2015
          : 29
          : 1
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          10.1609/aaai.v29i1.9376
          b22a2c67-36a4-4000-904a-9700c83df10b
          © 2015
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