Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities
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| author | Xu, Michael F Yang, Qiyao Kirkorian, Heather Mutlu, Bilge |
| author_facet | Xu, Michael F Yang, Qiyao Kirkorian, Heather Mutlu, Bilge |
| contents | Family-school partnerships (FSP) are critical to children's development, yet families often face barriers such as time constraints, fragmented communication, and limited opportunities for meaningful engagement. As a step toward facilitating broader family-school partnerships, we explore a novel approach that integrates a social robot into family settings, specifically supporting home-based activities. Through interviews and co-design sessions, we designed and developed a robotic system informed by both parents and children, that supported, among other interactions, family communication about school topics. We evaluated the robot in a week-long, in-home study with 10 families. Our findings show how families integrated the robot into daily life, how parental facilitation styles shaped use, and how families perceived both the helpfulness and challenges of the robot. We contribute empirical insights, a modular system, and design implications for family- and child-robot interactions. We discuss ethical and privacy considerations, and broaden the design space for technologies supporting family-school partnerships. |
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| spellingShingle | Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities Xu, Michael F Yang, Qiyao Kirkorian, Heather Mutlu, Bilge Robotics Human-Computer Interaction Family-school partnerships (FSP) are critical to children's development, yet families often face barriers such as time constraints, fragmented communication, and limited opportunities for meaningful engagement. As a step toward facilitating broader family-school partnerships, we explore a novel approach that integrates a social robot into family settings, specifically supporting home-based activities. Through interviews and co-design sessions, we designed and developed a robotic system informed by both parents and children, that supported, among other interactions, family communication about school topics. We evaluated the robot in a week-long, in-home study with 10 families. Our findings show how families integrated the robot into daily life, how parental facilitation styles shaped use, and how families perceived both the helpfulness and challenges of the robot. We contribute empirical insights, a modular system, and design implications for family- and child-robot interactions. We discuss ethical and privacy considerations, and broaden the design space for technologies supporting family-school partnerships. |
| title | Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities |
| topic | Robotics Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23978 |