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Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

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Gamified Motor Training With Tangible Robots in Older Adults: A Feasibility Study and Comparison With the Young

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Ayberk Özgür, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Background: An increasing lifespan and the resulting change in our expectations of later life stages are dependent on a good health state. This emphasizes the importance of the development of strategies to further strengthen healthy aging. One important as ...

2020

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

Learning (Good Handwriting In Greek) By Teaching (A Humanoid Robot)

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Thanasis Hadzilacos

We report on a follow-up study of the Co-Writer project at EPFL [1]; we confirm their findings, extend the applicability to another language with a different alphabet (Greek) and go into an in-depth qualitative study of the child-robot relationship. The co ...

IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT2020

Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Geometry and handwriting rely heavily on the visual representation of basic shapes. It can become challenging for students with visual impairments to perceive these shapes and understand complex spatial constructs. For instance, knowing how to draw is high ...

ACM2020

A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context

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

This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching literacy, addressing a rare combination of research hypotheses and technical ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Cognitive Learning with a Robot: The Case of Script Acquisition

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

This research is situated in a specialized context offering a rarely occurring opportunity for research questions and technical objectives about language acquisition. The Kazakh language transition from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan raises chall ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

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

AlloHaptic: Robot-Mediated Haptic Collaboration for Learning Linear Functions

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Aditi Kothiyal, Hala Khodr

Collaborative learning appears in a joint intellectual efforts of individuals to understand an object of knowledge collectively. In their search for understanding the problems, meanings, and solutions, learners employ different multi-modal strategies. In t ...

IEEE2020

When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi

This paper describes research aimed at supporting children's reading practices using a robot designed to interact with children as their reading companion. We use a learning by teaching scenario in which the robot has a similar or lower reading level compa ...

ACM2018

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

Designing Configurable Arm Rehabilitation Games: How Do Different Game Elements Affect User Motion Trajectories?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Ayberk Özgür, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

For successful rehabilitation of a patient after a stroke or traumatic brain injury, it is crucial that rehabilitation activities are motivating, provide feedback and have a high rate of repetitions. Advancements in recent technologies provide solutions to ...

IEEE2019

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

TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür, Hala Khodr

While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the us ...

ACM2019

R2T2 : Robotics to Integrate Educational Efforts in South Africa and Europe

Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Evgeniia Bonnet

This paper presents the first cross-continental collaborative robotic event based around education. It was entitled R2T2 and it involved more than 100 children from Europe and Africa. Based on remote programming, video streaming feedback, and a scenario of ...

2016

Bridging Multilevel Time Scales in HRI

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

In this article, we present a multi-level time scales framework for the analysis of human-robot interaction (HRI). Such a framework allows HRI scientists to model the inter-relation between measures and factors of an experiment. Our final goal with the int ...

2019

Towards an Adaptive Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Ayberk Özgür, Pablo Maceira Elvira, Louis Pierre Faucon, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior

A key feature of a successful game is its ability to provide the player with an adequate level of challenge. However, the objective of difficulty adaptation in serious games is not only to maintain the player’s motivation by challenging, but also to ensure ...

2019

Augmented Robotics for Learners: A Case Study on Optics

Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Stéphane Magnenat, Amaury Robert Dame

In recent years, robots have been surfing on a trendy wave as standard devices for teaching programming. The tangibility of robotics platforms allows for collaborative and interactive learning. Moreover, with these robot platforms, we also observe the occu ...

IEEE2019

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Séverin Lemaignan, Ayberk Özgür

In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by designing them to be pe ...

ACM2017

CoWriting Kazakh: Transitioning to a New Latin Script using Social Robots

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

In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the transition from Cyrillic towards Latin alphabet raises challenges to teach the whole population in writing the new script. This paper presents a CoWriting Kazakh system that aims to implement an autonomous behavior of a s ...

IEEE2019

Haptic-Enabled Handheld Mobile Robots: Design and Analysis

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür

The Cellulo robots are small tangible robots that are designed to represent virtual interactive point-like objects that reside on a plane within carefully designed learning activities. In the context of these activities, our robots not only display autonom ...

ACM2017