Interactive Tutor Robot for Collaborative e‐Learning System

Abstract

SUMMARY In this paper, we propose Interactive Tutor Robot (ITR) to enhance collaborative e‐Learning system for Science and Technology education field. We implemented the robot with powerful communication specification to e‐Learning contents. It makes learner to get more efficient environment and education contents by a communication with tutor robot interactively. Based on this idea, we defined a simple prototype system to realize an experimental emotion on the target education contents, and tried to confirm a possibility to extend the function for collaborative e‐Learning system according to noble “Qualia” and “Awareness”. We propose one of methods to realize the two above concepts.