Effort-Based Praise From a Robot : ‘ You worked so hard for this , well done ! ’

Technology is increasingly being used in classrooms, to support the teacher in teaching the children. An example of one of those technologies is a robot, which can help children during learning activities. Praise given by the person teaching, either a teacher or a peer, can stimulate the learning process. However, it is not yet clear if this same effect could be reached by praise coming from a technological source. To discover this, an experiment is done in which participants were given a learning task, with the praise coming from either a tablet or a robot. The praise was effort-based praise, since this sort of praise is proven to be better than intelligent-based praise. The robot might give more effective praise, since it is a social entity. However, there was no significant change discovered in the mindset of participants, either with a tablet or robot given the praise.