Jean-Louis Stilgenbauer
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Laboratoire Cognitions Humaine et Artificielle
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Jean-Louis Stilgenbauer is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of developmental robotics, educational technology, and cognitive pragmatics. His work fundamentally explores how humanoid robots can serve as powerful experimental tools to enhance children’s learning and social cognition. Stilgenbauer’s most influential contribution, “Learning by Teaching with Humanoid Robot: A New Powerful Experimental Tool to Improve Children’s Learning Ability” (2018, 59 citations), provides a seminal review of the learning-by-teaching paradigm in educational robotics, demonstrating how robot tutees can significantly boost children’s engagement and knowledge retention. He further advances the field with his innovative work on pragmatic reasoning in theory-of-mind tasks. In “Pragmatics in the False-Belief Task: Let the Robot Ask the Question!” (2020, 16 citations), Stilgenbauer reveals how conversational pragmatics—specifically, the ambiguous phrasing of questions by adult experimenters—can confound classic false-belief assessments. By replacing human experimenters with robots, he offers a novel methodological breakthrough for more accurately measuring young children’s cognitive abilities. Stilgenbauer’s research is notable for bridging developmental psychology and human-robot interaction, providing both theoretical insights and practical tools for educators and roboticists.
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- 2Pragmatics in the False-Belief Task: Let the Robot Ask the Question!16 citations · 2020