Children's Perceptions of and Interactions with a Telepresence Robot.

The primary concern of this study is to explore children's engagement and learning experiences in distant learning environments using three different videoconferencing technologies--two traditional screen-based videoconferencing technologies and a remotely-controlled telepresence robot. To truthfully capture the perspectives of the children, we employed multiple data collection methods--rating scales, narratives, ranking scales, and oneon- one interviews, as well as observation of nonverbal cues. Our findings suggest that participants reacted more positively to interactions via telepresence robot than to screen-based video-conferencing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]