Growing Growth Mindset with a Social Robot Peer

Mindset has been shown to have a large impact on people's academic, social, and work achievements. A growth mindset, i.e., the belief that success comes from effort and perseverance, is a better indicator of higher achievements as compared to a fixed mindset, i.e., the belief that things are se...

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Published in:2017 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Vol. 2017; pp. 137 - 145
Main Authors: Park, Hae Won, Rosenberg-Kima, Rinat, Rosenberg, Maor, Gordon, Goren, Breazeal, Cynthia
Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.03.2017
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Applied computing > Education > Interactive learning environments
child-robot interaction
cognitive architecture
Computer architecture
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge representation and reasoning > Cognitive robotics
early childhood education
Face
Games
grit
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction paradigms > Collaborative interaction
mindset
perseverance
Problem-solving
Robot sensing systems
social robots
Task analysis
mindset
cognitive architecture
grit
social robots
child-robot interaction
perseverance
early childhood education
ISBN:9781450343367, 1450343368
ISSN:2167-2148
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Summary:Mindset has been shown to have a large impact on people's academic, social, and work achievements. A growth mindset, i.e., the belief that success comes from effort and perseverance, is a better indicator of higher achievements as compared to a fixed mindset, i.e., the belief that things are set and cannot be changed. Interventions aimed at promoting a growth mindset in children range from teaching about the brain's ability to learn and change, to playing computer games that grant brain points for effort rather than success. This work explores a novel paradigm to foster a growth mindset in young children where they play a puzzle solving game with a peer-like social robot. The social robot is fully autonomous and programmed with behaviors suggestive of it having either a growth mindset or a neutral mindset as it plays puzzle games with the child. We measure the mindset of children before and after interacting with the peer-like robot, in addition to measuring their problem solving behavior when faced with a challenging puzzle. We found that children who played with a growth-mindset robot 1) self-reported having a stronger growth mindset and 2) tried harder during a challenging task, as compared to children who played with the neutral-mindset robot. These results suggest that interacting with peer-like social robot with a growth mindset can promote the same mindset in children.
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ISBN:9781450343367
1450343368
ISSN:2167-2148
DOI:10.1145/2909824.3020213