Play-Testing REMind: Evaluating an Educational Robot-Mediated Role-Play Game
arXiv:2604.00300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents REMind, an innovative educational robot-mediated role-play game designed to support anti-bullying bystander intervention among children. REMind invites players to observe a bullying scenario enacted by social robots, reflect on the perspectives of the characters, and rehearse defending strategies by puppeteering a robotic avatar. We evaluated REMind through a mixed-methods play-testing study with 18 children aged 9--10. The findings suggest that the experience supported key learning goals related to self-efficacy, perspective-taking, understanding outcomes of defending, and intervention strategies. These results highlight the promise of Robot-Mediated Applied Drama (RMAD) as a novel pedagogical framework to support Social-
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Abstract:This paper presents REMind, an innovative educational robot-mediated role-play game designed to support anti-bullying bystander intervention among children. REMind invites players to observe a bullying scenario enacted by social robots, reflect on the perspectives of the characters, and rehearse defending strategies by puppeteering a robotic avatar. We evaluated REMind through a mixed-methods play-testing study with 18 children aged 9--10. The findings suggest that the experience supported key learning goals related to self-efficacy, perspective-taking, understanding outcomes of defending, and intervention strategies. These results highlight the promise of Robot-Mediated Applied Drama (RMAD) as a novel pedagogical framework to support Social-Emotional Learning.
Comments: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication
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Robotics (cs.RO); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
ACM classes: I.2.9; H.5.2; J.1; K.3.1
Cite as: arXiv:2604.00300 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2604.00300v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.00300
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From: Elaheh Sanoubari [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:51:53 UTC (2,414 KB)
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