The Valley of non-Distraction: Effect of Robot's Human-likeness on Perception Load
Previous research in psychology has found that human faces have the capability of being more distracting under high perceptual load …
Domestic Drones: Context of Use in Research Literature
Domestic robotic entities are on the rise, out of which, domestic drones are taking place in our society as one of the upcoming …
Using Tabletop Robots to promote Inclusive Classroom Experiences
Geometry and handwriting rely heavily on the visual representation of basic shapes. It can become challenging for students with visual …
Swarm Robots in Education: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities
This study reviews published scientific literature on the use of swarm robots for education purposes in the last ten years. It focuses …
Research Trends in Social Robots for Learning
Purpose of Review
With the growth in the number of market-available social robots, there is an increasing interest in research on the …
Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Tangible Robot-Assisted Handwriting Activity for Special Education
In this article, we investigate the role of interactive haptic-enabled tangible robots in supporting the learning of cursive letter …
Gamified Motor Training with Tangible Robots in Older Adults: a Feasibility Study and Comparison with Young
Background: The increasing lifespan and the resulting change of our expectations in later life stages are dependent on a good health …
Exploring the Role of Perspective Taking in Educational Child-Robot Interaction
Perspective taking is an important skill to have and learn, which can be applied in many different domains and disciplines. While the …
CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the transition from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet raises challenges to training an entire population in …
Acquisition of handwriting in children with and without dysgraphia: A computational approach
Handwriting is a complex skill to acquire and it requires years of training to be mastered. Children presenting dysgraphia exhibit …
A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context
This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan’s recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based …
\"If You've Gone Straight, Now, You Must Turn Left\" - Exploring the Use of a Tangible Interface in a Collaborative Treasure Hunt for People with Visual Impairments
Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) have been found to be relevant tools for collaborative learning by providing a shared workspace and …
Augmented Robotics for Learners: A Case Study on Optics
In recent years, robots have been surfing on a trendy wave as standard devices for teaching programming. The tangibility of robotics …
Towards an Adaptive Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots
A key feature of a successful game is its ability to provide the player with an adequate level of challenge. However, the objective of …
TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration
While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers’ common practice remain to use photocopied documents to share and …
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 …
Studying the Effect of Robot Frustration on Children's Change of Perspective
The use of robots as peers is more and more studied in human-robot interaction with co-learning interactions being complex and rich …
Robot Analytics: What Do Human-Robot Interaction Traces Tell Us About Learning?
In this paper, we propose that the data generated by educational robots can be better used by applying learning analytics methods and …
Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities
Bringing robots into classrooms presents a new set of challenges for classroom management and teacher support compared to traditional …
Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots
Robots bring a new potential for embodied learning in classrooms. With our project, we aim to ease the task for teachers and to show …
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 …
Designing Configurable Arm Rehabilitation Games: How Do Different Game Elements Affect User Motion Trajectories?
For successful rehabilitation of a patient after a stroke or traumatic brain injury, it is crucial that rehabilitation activities are …
CoWriting Kazakh: Transitioning to a New Latin Script using Social Robots
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the transition from Cyrillic towards Latin alphabet raises challenges to teach the whole population in …
Bridging Multilevel Time Scales in HRI: An Analysis Framework
In this article, we present a multi-level time scales framework for the analysis of human-robot interaction (HRI). Such a framework …
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 …
The near future of children's robotics
Robotics is a multidisciplinary and highly innovative field. Recently, multiple and often minimally connected sub-communities of …
Iterative design of an upper limb rehabilitation game with tangible robots
Rehabilitation aims to ameliorate deficits in motor control via intensive practice with the affected limb. Current strategies, such as …
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 …
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, …
Workshop on Robots for Learning: R4L
While robots have been popular as a tool for STEM teaching, the use of robots in other learning scenarios is novel. The field of HRI …
Haptic-enabled handheld mobile robots: Design and analysis
The Cellulo robots are small tangible robots that are designed to represent virtual interactive point-like objects that reside on a …
Starting engagement detection towards a companion robot using multimodal features
Recognition of intentions is a subconscious cognitive process vital to human communication. This skill enables anticipation and …
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 …
The Grenoble system for the social touch challenge at ICMI 2015
New technologies and especially robotics is going towards more natural user interfaces. Works have been done in different modality of …
Multi-sensors engagement detection with a robot companion in a home environment
Recognition of intentions is an unconscious cognitive process vital to human communication. This skill enables anticipation and …
