Work by Junko (The principal investigator of the MLT Lab) and her collaborator Prof. Mutsumi just published a chapter in a new book on numeral classifier systems in languages !
New book chapter published!
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Category Archives: Research
Meet the new lab member!
January 21, 2021 – Our new lab robot has just arrived today! Please stay tuned for future studies.
A new paper in children learning from a robot!
This new paper looks at the effects of visual cues presented on the screen and different types of gestures in a language lesson for children led by NAO robot and human tutors 🤖 You can check the full article from here.
New book chapter!
July 1, 2020 – New chapter on language, thought, and culture in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology has been published! Click here to learn more about the chapter.
Presentation at CogSCi 2019
July 25, 2019 – I presented a poster at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Montreal, Canada. Click here to see the poster and here to find out more about CogSci.
Kanero, J., Oranç, C., Koşkulu, S., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, July). When do iconic gestures facilitate word learning? The case of L2 lessons for preschoolers led by a robot or human tutor. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Talk at Sabancı University!
May 7, 2019 – I had an opportunity to present my research about learning language with human and robot tutors in the Subject-Based Discussion series organized by the Academic Support Program at Sabancı. It was great to have discussion with students from different backgrounds 🙂
Best Full Paper Award at HRI
Ranked 4th in the SRCD “Most Downloaded” article list
We are delighted to hear from the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) that our paper “Social Robots for Early Language earning: Current Evidence and Future Directions” was one of the top 10 “Most Downloaded” articles in the SRCD journal family in 2018 (4th place). Thank you for your interest in our research!
Kanero, J., Geçkin V., Oranç, C., Mamus, E., Küntay, A. C., & Göksun, T. (2018). Social robots for early language learning. Child Development Perspectives, 12(3), 146-151. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12277 Full Paper
Presentation at Symposium on Robots for Language Learning
December 13, 2018 – I presented our work that explored the use of gestures in L2 lessons led by a robot tutor and a human tutor at Symposium on Robots for Language Learning at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Our collaborators in L2TOR – Paul Vogt, Paul Leseman, and Chris Wallbridge – also presented about studies I was involved in. Find out more about the symposium at: https://sites.google.com/view/l2torsymposium
Kanero, J. (December, 2018). Gestures in L2 lessons led by a robot and human tutor. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Vogt, P. (December, 2018). Social robots as second language tutors: interaction design for a large field study. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Leseman, P. (December, 2018). Social robots as second language tutors: results of a randomized field study and prospects for education. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Wallbridge, C. D. (December, 2018). Using a Robot Peer to Encourage the Production of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Presentation at Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi
November 17, 2018 – We have an oral presentation at 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi (“the 20th National Psychology Congress”) in Ankara, Turkey. My collaborator Sümeyye Koşkulu (Koç University) will be giving the presentation. Find out more about the conference at: https://psikoloji2018.org/ (Turkish only)
Koşkulu, S., Oranç, C., Kanero, J., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (upcoming). Robotların Jestler ve Geri Bildirim İle Okul Öncesi Dönemde İngilizce Eğitimine Katkıları. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Turkey.