Emotion and Memory Model to Promote Mathematics Learning - An Exploratory Long-term Study

In this paper, we present a Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) study that applies our emotion and memory model on the social robot in the wild in a mathematics learning scenario. The rationale to conduct this study was to explore the effects of our model on children's engagement and learning in a real-life scenario and also to further emphasise the value of our model. We conducted an exploratory long-term CRI study, where the robot used the personalisation mechanism based on our emotion and memory model to understand its effects in terms of improving children's learning and sustaining social engagement on the Mathematics task in a long-term interaction. Our results showed that in a condition, where our model was implemented on the social robot, children showed the higher level of social engagement. Additionally, their learning performance based on calculating area and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes was also better in terms of their test scores.