Anton Kim, Meruyert Omarova, Adil Zhaksylyk, Thibault Asselborn,Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Anara Sandygulova
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the transition from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet raises challenges of teaching the whole population a new script. This paper presents a Co-writing Kazakh system that aims to implement an autonomous behaviour of a social robot that would assist children in learning the new script. Considering that the current generation of primary school children has to be fluent in both Kazakh scripts, this exploratory study aims to investigate which learning approach provides a better outcome. Participants were asked to teach a humanoid robot, NAO, how to write Kazakh words using one of the scripts: Latin vs Cyrillic.