Noraidah Blar, Fairul Azni Jafar, and Radin Puteri Hazimah Radin Monawir Article first published online: 2015 Abstract
This paper aimed to display and elaborate the results obtained through experiments to study students' feedback when they learn from a robot and a human teacher. A questionnaire asking the questions related to the robot and human teacher, where the answer is listed under several feelings, was set up and distributed to the students during the experimental implementation. Nao robot was used as the robot teacher and is programmed to able to teach the students. Each teacher (robot and human) delivered the same topic with the same sentences and gestures. The topic chosen for this experiment is "Introduction to Mechatronic" due to the scope that focuses on technical students at the university level. To make this research more applicable, some variables were decided when handling the experiment. The finding of this research is displayed in graphs for each question. The exciting feeling experienced by the students involved in the experiments is the important point for comparing robot and human teacher lecture class. However, some advantages and disadvantages for the feeling occur within the teacher's (robot and human) lecture session. As for the conclusion, students feel more excited towards the robot teacher compare to a human teacher. These experiments contribute one of valuable knowledge on how a new thing attracts people and keeps their attention to it. |