The Robot Who Tried Too Hard: Social Behaviour of a Robot Tutor Can Negatively Affect Child Learning

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• Publication date

  2015-03-02

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1145/2696454.2696457
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