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Handwriting

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A game-based approach for evaluating and customizing handwriting training using an autonomous social robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Chenyang Wang, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Handwriting learning is a long and complex process that takes about ten years to be fully mastered. Nearly one-third of all children aged 4-12 experiences handwriting difficulties and, sadly, most of them are left to fight them on their own, due to the sca ...

IEEE2022

The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Do handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our measures of handwriting skills intrinsically bound to one alphabet or will a child who faces handwriting difficulties in one scri ...

2021

“It Is Not the Robot Who Learns, It Is Me.” Treating Severe Dysgraphia Using Child–Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, David Cohen

Writing disorders are frequent and impairing. However, social robots may help to improve children's motivation and to propose enjoyable and tailored activities. Here, we have used the Co-writer scenario in which a child is asked to teach a robot how to wri ...

2021

Extending the Spectrum of Dysgraphia: A Data Driven Strategy to Estimate Handwriting Quality

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

This paper proposes new ways to assess handwriting, a critical skill in any child’s school journey. Traditionally, a pen and paper test called the BHK test (Concise Evaluation Scale for Children’s Handwriting) is used to assess children’s handwriting in Fr ...

Nature Research2020

Analysis and Remediation of Handwriting difficulties

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Even with correct training, up to 25% of children never master handwriting like their peers. While research shows a correlation between handwriting difficulties and school failure, these difficulties can also impact children in their self esteem and behavi ...

EPFL2020

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Ayberk Özgür, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

A large body of research suggests that robots could indeed be useful for supporting children in learning handwriting. However, few studies have investigated the role and use of tangible robots in teaching handwriting to children with attention and/or visuo ...

2020

Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Tangible Robot-Assisted Handwriting Activity for Special Education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Ayberk Özgür, Elmira Yadollahi

In this article we investigate the role of interactive haptic-enabled tangible robots in supporting the learning of cursive letter writing for children with attention and visuomotor coordination issues. We focus on the two principal aspects of handwriting ...

2020

Children Teach Handwriting to a Social Robot with Different Learning Competencies

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra

As robots are entering into educational fields to enhance children's learning, it becomes relevant to explore different methods of learning in the area of child-robot interaction. In this article, we present an autonomous educational system incorporating a ...

SPRINGER2020

Learning How to Write with a Social Robot

Shruti Chandra

Learning handwriting is one of the main occupations for children in primary education. It is a complex skill that has been associated with children’s learning and development. Poor handwriting skills affect children negatively concerning their academic per ...

EPFL2019

Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Lukasz Kidzinski, David Cohen

The academic and behavioral progress of children is associated with the timely development of reading and writing skills. Dysgraphia, characterized as a handwriting learning disability, is usually associated with dyslexia, developmental coordination disord ...

Springer2018

Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Ayberk Özgür, Khalil Mrini, Elmira Yadollahi

In this paper, we present a robotic approach to improve the teaching of handwriting using the tangible, haptic-enabled and classroom-friendly Cellulo robots. Our efforts presented here are in line with the philosophy of the Cellulo platform: we aim to crea ...

ACM2018

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering children's learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot that was designed to enhance children's handwriting skills. Exploiting the benefi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Developing Learning Scenarios to Foster Children's Handwriting Skills with the Help of Social Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra

Social robots are being used to create better educationalscenarios, boosting children’s motivation and engagement.The focus of the research is to explore new ways to supportchildren in acquisition of their handwriting skills with thehelp of a social robot. ...

2017

Classification of Children's Handwriting Errors for the Design of an Educational Co-writer Robotic Peer

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra

In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of handwriting errors exhibited by children as a way to build adequate strategies for integration with a co-writing peer. The exploration includes the collection of letters written by children in an initial study, which ...

2017

GMM-based Handwriting Style Identification System for Historical Documents

Fouad Slimane

In this paper, we describe a novel method for handwriting style identification. A handwriting style can be common to one or several writer. It can represent also a handwriting style used in a period of the history or for specific document. Our method is ba ...

2014

Towards Natural Non-Invasive Hand Neuroprostheses for Daily Living

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Michele Tavella

In this paper we show how healthy subjects can operate a non-invasive asynchronous BCI for controlling a FES neuroprosthesis and manipulate objects to carry out daily tasks in ecological conditions. Both, experienced and novel subjects proved to be able to ...

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