Publications by Francesco Mondada

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Robots are both fascinating objects for the general public and devices whose conception, understanding and pro- gramming involve many fields. This unique combination makes them an ideal tool for introducing science and technology to children. This paper pr ...

Biomimetic robots are promising tools in animal behavioural studies. If they are socially integrated in a group of animals, they can produce calibrated social stimuli to test the animal responses. However, the design of such social robots is challenging as ...

Technology is playing an increasing role in our society. Therefore it becomes important to educate the general public, and young generations in particular, about the most common technologies. In this context, robots are excellent education tools, for many ...

Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with resistance, especially in primary school. To address this issue, this study ...

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse an in service teacher training program that took place from September 2018 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. Approximately 350 teachers from the first four grades of primary ...

We present a study on the impact of unexpected robot behaviors on the perception of a robot by children and their subsequent engagement in a playful interaction based on a novel ”domino” task. We propose an original analysis methodology which blends behavi ...

The Living Arch is a study model that was designed to showcase our ongoing research into bioactive architectural systems to be inhabited by honeybees. The arch is a synergistic combination of 3D printing and active mycelia growth, created for a museum exhi ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a novel miniature magnetic climbing robot for industrial inspection. The robot has high mobility with low complexity. ...

An important goal of collective robotics is the design of control systems that allow groups of robots to accomplish common tasks by coordinating without centralized control. In this paper, we study how a group of physically assembled robots can display coh ...

Le département de la Formation, de la Jeunesse et de la Culture (DFJC) a lancé en 2018 un vaste chantier numérique dans le Canton de Vaud dont la première priorité est l’école vaudoise. En août 2018, 10 établissements on débuté une phase pilote afin de tes ...

Le canton de Vaud en Suisse a lancé depuis 2019 un nouveau format d’éducation numérique pour tous les niveaux, de la maternelle au gymnase, qui associe étroitement informatique et sciences sociales. Dans ce compte-rendu d’expérience, nous présentons à la f ...

Corresponding article : El-Hamamsy, L.*, Monnier, E.-C. *, Chessel-Lazzarotto F., Liégeois G., Bruno, B., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F. (2023). An Adapted Cascade Model to Scale Primary School Digital Education Curricular Reforms and Teacher Profess ...

Honeybees are essential to human society, providing pollination services globally as well as producing honey and other valuable products. Effective management of apiaries should not only rely on beekeeper knowledge and skill, but also incorporate new infor ...

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A Programming Workshop using the Robot "Thymio II": The Effect on the Understanding by Children

How mimetic should a robotic fish be to socially integrate into zebrafish groups ?

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots

Dataset for the evaluation of a large-scale in-service K-4 teacher-training program for computer science and robotics

Adapted magnetic wheel unit for compact robots inspecting complex shaped pipe structures

On the use of photovoltaic modules as lightning detection sensors

You're Doing It Wrong! Studying Unexpected Behaviors in Child-Robot Interaction

Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot

Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

A study model for reconstructing urban ecological niches

Improved mobile robot programming performance through real-time program assessment

Cy-mag3D: a simple and miniature climbing robot with advance mobility in ferromagnetic environment

Bi-pedal Robot for Rescue Operations

Self-Organised Coordinated Motion in Groups of Physically Connected Robots

Noise and bias for free : PERPLEXUS as a material platform for embodied thought-experiments

Formation des Enseignant·e·s au Numérique: Rapport sur la Première Année de Formation à la Science Informatique au Cycle 1 en Collaboration avec la HEP Vaud, l’Unil et le DFJC

Un modèle pluraliste d’éducation numérique, l’expérience du canton de Vaud en Suisse

Dataset for the evaluation of the scalability of a primary school Digital Education curricular reform

Architecture of a decentralised decision support system for futuristic beehives