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SOCIALLY ASSISTIVE ROBOTS IN EDUCATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT. A REVIEW OF FIELD RESEARCH
Alina BETLEJ1
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 31 December 2023
Keywords: socially assistive technologies, robots, socially assistive robots, socially assistive humanoid robots, social technology assessment
Abstract The article reviews selected studies in the field of social evaluation of the use of socially assistive technologies in education. The analysis began with a theoretical introduction to the problem of technology evaluation. The next step was to define the different types of assistive technologies. The next part of the paper analyzed and compared the results of selected studies on the opportunities and risks of using socially assistive technologies in education. The conclusions summarize the findings and point to future research directions to be pursued in the near future.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economic and Digi-tal Sociology, Centre for Sociological Research on the Econ-omy and the Internet, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0002-2729-6564
E-mail: alina.betlej@kul.pl