AI-enabled technology possesses substantial potential to bolster childhood development and education. Human-like social robots, in particular, are believed to benefit young children. However, coupled with their merit features is robots' digital nature that makes it difficult for young children to transfer what they learn from digital media to real life, so called the transfer deficit. In this paper, we report our in-progress work examining the role of social robots in reducing such a deficit of transferring from passive digital screens, with a focus on a social meaningfulness-based mechanism. ...
