Co-Learning around Social Robots with School Pupils and University Students – Focus on Data Privacy Considerations

Abstract

We adopt a novel approach of co-learning between elementaryschool pupils and university students around social robots and ro-botics. Social robots provide a motivational learning tool for variouslearning tasks. Having different learner groups together may bringin new insights, perspectives and learning. Although social robotsprovide an interesting platform for learning, they have challengesin terms of data privacy, as they track, process and transfer personaldata. These matters should be carefully considered. We describe aqualitative and exploratory study including two phases: 1) designof co-learning activities (N=16), and 2) evaluation of co-learningactivities (N=56). All co-learning tasks were developed by utilizingprivacy-sensitive robotics approach and the tasks included somelearning content about data privacy. The evaluation was conductedas co-learning workshops with school pupils of 10 to 15 years andinternational university students. We report findings about the co-learning experience of these learner groups, as well as their dataprivacy learnings on social robots. We also present considerationsfor educational robotics from the data privacy perspective.