CoWriter

In the CoWriter Project, we explore how the learning by teaching approach can be employed to motivate children to practice their handwriting skills with a small humanoid robot.
Publications
Learning By Collaborative Teaching: An Engaging Multi-Party CoWriter Activity
This paper presents the design of a novel and engaging collaborative learning activity for handwriting where a group of participants …
The Dynamics of Handwriting Improves the Automated Diagnosis of Dysgraphia
Handwriting disorder (termed dysgraphia) is a far from a singular problem as nearly 8.6% of the population in France is considered …
Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet
The academic and behavioral progress of children is associated with the timely development of reading and writing skills. Dysgraphia, …
Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots
In this paper, we present a robotic approach to improve the teaching of handwriting using the tangible, haptic-enabled and …
When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration
This paper describes research aimed at supporting children’s reading practices using a robot designed to interact with children …
Child-robot spatial arrangement in a learning by teaching activity
In this paper, we present an experiment in the context of a child-robot interaction where we study the influence of the …