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 elementary<br/>school pupils and university students around social robots and ro-<br/>botics. Social robots provide a motivational learning tool for various<br/>learning tasks. Having different learner groups together may bring<br/>in new insights, perspectives and learning. Although social robots<br/>provide an interesting platform for learning, they have challenges<br/>in terms of data privacy, as they track, process and transfer personal<br/>data. These matters should be carefully considered. We describe a<br/>qualitative and exploratory study including two phases: 1) design<br/>of co-learning activities (N=16), and 2) evaluation of co-learning<br/>activities (N=56). All co-learning tasks were developed by utilizing<br/>privacy-sensitive robotics approach and the tasks included some<br/>learning content about data privacy. The evaluation was conducted<br/>as co-learning workshops with school pupils of 10 to 15 years and<br/>international university students. We report findings about the co-<br/>learning experience of these learner groups, as well as their data<br/>privacy learnings on social robots. We also present considerations<br/>for educational robotics from the data privacy perspective.