Humanoid Robots for Skill Augmentation of Gifted Children: Teachers’ Perceptions and Islamic Implications

Learning futures with mixed sentience

“…One such trend is the use of SAR to augment the capabilities of people with disabilities in collaboration with other humans, for example: children with cognitive disabilities (Hashim & Mahamood, 2014), and people with cerebral palsy (Malik, Yussof, Hanapiah, & Anne, 2014).…”

“…For people with disabilities technology-enabled learning holds the promise of greater workforce participation, social interaction, problem-solving skills and educational success. Robots have the potential to serve an assistive role in human learning, whether by providing information (i.e., Moran, Bachour & Learning Futures with Mixed Sentience 4 Nishida, 2015), assisting in task acquisition and performance (i.e., Hashim & Mahamood, 2014), or behavior modeling (i.e., Rabbitt, Kazdin, & Scassellati, 2014). Researchers are grappling with how to make robots more engaging to people, including people with disabilities (Alonso-Martin, Castro-Gonzalez, Luengo, & Salichs, 2015), holding out the possibility that people who use robots will not be ostracized, if not directly addressing the potential for decreased social participation with increased robot presence.…”