Play-Testing REMind: Evaluating an Educational Robot-Mediated Role-Play Game

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00300v1
• Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:51:53 GMT
• Title: Play-Testing REMind: Evaluating an Educational Robot-Mediated Role-Play Game
• Abstract summary: REMind is an educational robot-mediated role-play game designed to support anti-bullying bystander intervention.<n>We evaluated REMind through a mixed-methods play-testing study with 18 children aged 9--10.
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• Abstract: This paper presents REMind, an innovative educational robot-mediated role-play game designed to support anti-bullying bystander intervention among children. REMind invites players to observe a bullying scenario enacted by social robots, reflect on the perspectives of the characters, and rehearse defending strategies by puppeteering a robotic avatar. We evaluated REMind through a mixed-methods play-testing study with 18 children aged 9--10. The findings suggest that the experience supported key learning goals related to self-efficacy, perspective-taking, understanding outcomes of defending, and intervention strategies. These results highlight the promise of Robot-Mediated Applied Drama (RMAD) as a novel pedagogical framework to support Social-Emotional Learning.

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