Second Language Tutoring Using Social Robots (L2TOR) (Completed)
2016–2018
L2TOR (pronounced ‘el tutor’) aims to design a child-friendly tutor robot that can be used to support teaching preschool children a second language (L2) by interacting with children in their social and referential world. The project will focus on teaching English to native speakers of Dutch, German and Turkish, and teaching Dutch and German as L2 to immigrant children. We contribute research on interaction management tasks based on decision-theoretic dialogue modeling, probabilistic mental state attribution and incremental grounding.
