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22. Dezember 2015
Robots to Help Immigrant Children Learn German
Researchers at Bielefeld University plan to use the humanoid robot ‘Nao’ for language training
According
to the Federal Statistical Office, one-third of children under the age
of five in Germany come from immigrant families. Could technical
assistants be used to help prepare immigrant children for school and
teach them the new language? L2TOR, the new project financed by the
European Union, is researching that very question. The project will
launch in January 2016 and will run for three years. One research group
at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) of
Bielefeld University wants to provide tutoring systems with Tablet-PCs
and robots that can assist in language learning. To do this, researchers
are developing modules that recognize a child’s language abilities and
motivation so that the robot can react individually to each child.
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