Dr Ka Yan Fung, Mr Kwong Chiu Fung, Prof Wai Ho Mow, Miss Hon Shan Celia Tam, Dr Tze Leung, Rick Lui, Miss Yuxing TAO, Prof Lan Yang, Prof Kuen Fung Sin
1The Education University Of Hong Kong (EDUHK), Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Biography:
Dr Fung Ka Yan is a post-doc at The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are Specific Learning Disabilities, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction and Data Analytics.
Abstract:
Special Education Needs are associated with a range of disabilities. Youths with SENs always encounter difficulties in their career development, especially job interviews, as they cannot express their strengths to employers. Without sufficient training, they exhibit low self-confidence when having job interviews. Conventional training approaches often lack the necessary individualization to support students effectively. The quality of feedback may depend on the instructors’ experience. These challenges highlight the urgent need for an effective job training system to enhance interview skills and engagement for those youths with SENs. This study examines an interactive learning approach that leverages AI-enhanced robots to empower youth with SENs to conduct ChatGPT-supported job interview training. This creates a supportive training environment. To this end, we address how ChatGPT-supported job interview training influences the motivation and engagement of youth with SENs. The comparison study involves two groups of students: five SEN youth in the control group and five SEN youth in the experimental group. In the control group, they participate in four-training-session using the conventional training approach. In the experimental group, they participate in four-training-session using the ChatGPT-supported approach. The findings reveal that participants in the experimental group exhibit improvement in behavioural, emotional engagement, and intrinsic motivation. However, there is no change in cognitive engagement. While those in the control group do not have any changes in behavioural and emotional engagement but decrease in cognitive engagement and intrinsic motivation. The results suggest ChatGPT-supported job interview training is crucial to motivating the youth with SENs to express themselves.