Information technology, including digital devices, robots, and the internet, is of great interest in the field of education. Many previous studies have focused on improving lecturer–student communication during lectures. In this paper, we describe a new robot-teleoperation system for transferring students’ opinions or questions to the lecturer. Through this system, users can collaboratively choose a message to be uttered by a robot. We report the results of a subjective experiment performed in a controlled lecture-style environment. The results show that participation, as estimated from behavioral and subjective measures, increased in lectures using the proposed system compared with those that did not use the proposed system or employed a reduced version of the proposed system in which the robot was controlled individually (i.e., non-collaboratively).

包括数字设备，机器人和互联网在内的信息技术在教育领域引起了极大兴趣。先前的许多研究都集中于在演讲过程中改善讲师与学生之间的交流。在本文中，我们描述了一种新的机器人远程操作系统，用于将学生的观点或问题转移给讲师。通过该系统，用户可以协同选择要由机器人发出的消息。我们报告在受控的演讲风格的环境中执行的主观实验的结果。结果表明，根据行为和主观措施的估计，与不使用建议的系统或使用简化版本的建议的系统（单独控制机器人）相比，使用建议的系统的演讲的参与度有所增加