Using a Telepresence Robot in an Educational Contex

Laurent Gallon (1) , Angel Abénia (1) , Françoise Dubergey (2) , Maïté Negui (2)

1 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
2 PEP40/APADHE - Service d’Accompagnement Pédagogique À Domicile, à l’Hôpital ou à l’École (APADHE) des Landes PEP40/APADHE

This paper deals with the use of telepresence robots in an educational context. To this day, these uses are often related to the problematic of "homebound students" 1. The emphatic context associated with these students masks the pedagogical difficulties encountered by telepresence learners. In this article, we first detail the use of the robot by homebound students, highlighting motivational factors. Then we focus on persistence using the robot, once this emphatic context declines. Finally, we describe our attempts to reduce transactional distance by adding connected learning environments.

Keywords: telepresence robots; motivation; transactional distance

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Robotics [cs.RO]; Humanities and Social Sciences; Education

Laurent Gallon, Angel Abénia, Françoise Dubergey, Maïté Negui. Using a Telepresence Robot in an Educational Contex. 15th Int’l Conf on Frontiers in Education : Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS 2019), Jul 2019, Las Végas, United States. ⟨hal-02410364⟩