Envisioning social drones in education
Journal article, 2022

Education is one of the major application fields in social Human-Robot Interaction. Several forms of social robots have been explored to engage and assist students in the classroom environment, from full-bodied humanoid robots to tabletop robot companions, but flying robots have been left unexplored in this context. In this paper, we present seven online remote workshops conducted with 20 participants to investigate the application area of Education in the Human-Drone Interaction domain; particularly focusing on what roles a social drone could fulfill in a classroom, how it would interact with students, teachers and its environment, what it could look like, and what would specifically differ from other types of social robots used in education. In the workshops we used online collaboration tools, supported by a sketch artist, to help envision a social drone in a classroom. The results revealed several design implications for the roles and capabilities of a social drone, in addition to promising research directions for the development and design in the novel area of drones in education.

robots in education

education

remote design workshop

social drone

robot design

human drone interaction

Author

Wafa Johal

University of Melbourne

Doğa Gatos

Koç University

A.E. Yantaç

Koç University

Mohammad Obaid

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Frontiers Robotics AI

22969144 (eISSN)

Vol. 9 666736

Subject Categories

Media and Communication Technology

Interaction Technologies

Human Computer Interaction

DOI

10.3389/frobt.2022.666736

PubMed

36093212

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10/26/2023