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ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2021

When Even a Robot Tutor Zooms: A Study of Embodiment, Attitudes, and Impressions.

Junko Kanero, Elif Tutku Tunalı, Cansu Oranç, Tilbe Göksun, Aylin C Küntay

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Article in Frontiers in robotics and AI, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Social robots: a meta-analysis of learning outcomes.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Junko KaneroFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Elif Tutku TunalıFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Cansu OrançMPRG iSearch, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Tilbe GöksunDepartment of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Aylin C KüntayDepartment of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Koç University · TRSabancı Üniversitesi · TRMax Planck Institute for Human Development · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study used an online second language (L2) vocabulary lesson to evaluate whether the physical body (i.e., embodiment) of a robot tutor has an impact on how the learner learns from the robot. In addition, we tested how individual differences in attitudes toward robots, first impressions of the robot, anxiety in learning L2, and personality traits may be related to L2 vocabulary learning. One hundred Turkish-speaking young adults were taught eight English words in a one-on-one Zoom session either with a NAO robot tutor (

Indexed as

attitudesembodimenthuman-robot interactionimpressionssecond language learning (L2 learning)

Identifiers

PMID34368237
PMCPMC8335635
OpenAlexW3173610314

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Registered trials

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