2 papers
cs.RO2026
"You've got a friend in me": Co-Designing a Peer Social Robot for Young Newcomers' Language and Cultural Learning
Neil Fernandes, Cheng Tang, Tehniyat Shahbaz +4
Community literacy programs supporting young newcomer children in Canada face limited staffing and scarce one-to-one time, which constrains personalized English and cultural learni…
cs.RO2026
Co-designing a Social Robot for Newcomer Children's Cultural and Language Learning
Neil Fernandes, Tehniyat Shahbaz, Emily Davies-Robinson +2
Newcomer children face barriers in acquiring the host country's language and literacy programs are often constrained by limited staffing, mixed-proficiency cohorts, and short conta…