Fostering parent–child dialog through automated discussion suggestions
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Boteanu, Adrian; Chernova, Sonia; Nunez, David Scott; Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107180/11257_2016_Article_9176.pdf.jpg?sequence=6&isAllowed=y)
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The development of early literacy skills has been critically linked to a child’s later academic success. In particular, repeated studies have shown that reading aloud to children and providing opportunities for them to discuss the stories that they hear is of utmost importance to later academic success. CloudPrimer is a tablet-based interactive reading primer that aims to foster early literacy skills by supporting parents in shared reading with their children through user-targeted discussion topic suggestions. The tablet application records discussions between parents and children as they read a story and, in combination with a common sense knowledge base, leverages this information to produce suggestions. Because of the unique challenges presented by our application, the suggestion generation method relies on a novel topic modeling method that is based on semantic graph topology. We conducted a user study in which we compared how delivering suggestions generated by our approach compares to expert-crafted suggestions. Our results show that our system can successfully improve engagement and parent–child reading practices in the absence of a literacy expert’s tutoring.
Date issued
2016-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
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Springer Netherlands
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Boteanu, Adrian, Sonia Chernova, David Nunez, and Cynthia Breazeal. “Fostering Parent–child Dialog through Automated Discussion Suggestions.” User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 26, no. 5 (July 22, 2016): 393–423.
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0924-1868
1573-1391