Response prompting for intelligent robot instruction of students with intellectual disabilities

Abstract

Instruction of students with intellectual disability (ID) presents both unique challenges and a compelling opportunity for socially embedded robots to empower an important group in our population. We propose the creation of an autonomous, intelligent robot instructor (IRI) to teach socially valid life skills to students with ID. We present the construction of a complete IRI system for this purpose. Experimental results show the IRI is capable of teaching a non-trivial life skill to students with ID, and participants feel interaction with the IRI is beneficial.