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Robot Agreeableness and User Engagement in Verbal Human-Robot Interaction

Barbara Bruno

It is a well-established fact in the field of Human-Robot Interaction that the personality a social robot is endowed with (i.e., the one it expresses by its gestures and words) plays a key role towards the engagement experienced by any person interacting w ...

IEEE2020

DRONE GAME THAT HIGHLIGHTS ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DESIGN DECISIONS

Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Siara Ruth Isaac

This paper reports on the development of a brief scenario-based challenge to prompt engineering students’ reflection about the broader impacts of their design decisions, and thereby increase their ethical sensitivity and motivation. The game scenario asks ...

CDIO conference proceedings2023

Extended dataset for the validation the competent Computational Thinking test in grades 3-6

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Extended dataset for the validation the competent Computational Thinking test in grades 3-6 • If you publish material based on this dataset, please cite the following : • The Zenodo repository : Laila El-Hamamsy, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Dehler Zuffere ...

Zenodo2023

A Social Robot That Looks For Productive Engagement

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

In educational HRI, it is generally believed that a robots behavior has a direct effect on the engagement of a user with the robot, the task at hand and also their partner in case of a collaborative activity. Increasing this engagement is then held respons ...

2021

Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

A key element for the success of any game is its ability to produce a different experience at each round, thus keeping the player engagement high. This is particularly important for those games that also have a serious objective, such as gamified rehabilit ...

2020

The effect of gamified robot-enhanced training on motor performance in chronic stroke survivors

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Barbara Bruno, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Giulia Dominijanni, Valérie Rita Madeleine Zufferey

Task-specific training constitutes a core element for evidence-based rehabilitation strategies targeted at improving upper extremity activity after stroke. Its combination with additional treatment strategies and neurotechnologybased solutions could furthe ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

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

An HMM-based Real-time Intervention Methodology for a Social Robot Supporting Learning

Mortadha Abderrahim, Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno

To make social robots effective in education, they need to be autonomous both in terms of assessing the student's engagement state as well as intervening effectively in soft real-time when necessary. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is an interpretable machine le ...

IEEE2023

An Assessment Framework for Complex Systems Understanding

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Aditi Kothiyal, Hala Khodr

Complex systems understanding is crucial for understanding the sciences of the twenty-first century. Helping students with the principles of complex systems is thus both a challenge and an opportunity. In order to investigate the effectiveness of complex s ...

2022

Many Are The Ways to Learn: Identifying multi-modal behavioral profiles of collaborative learning in constructivist activities

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir, Aditi Kothiyal

Understanding how learners engage with learning technologies, and its relation with their learning, is crucial to the design of effective learning interventions. Assessing the learners’ state however, is non-trivial. Research suggests that performance is n ...

2021

Investigating the Role of Educational Robotics in Formal Mathematics Education: The Case of Geometry for 15-Year-Old Students

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Jérôme Guillaume Brender

Research has shown that Educational Robotics (ER) enhances student performance, interest, engagement and collaboration. However, until now, the adoption of robotics in formal education has remained relatively scarce. Among other causes, this is due to the ...

Springer, Cham2021

Effect of Different Communication Affordances on the Emergence of Collaboration Strategies in an Online Multiplayer Game

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Aditi Kothiyal, Hala Khodr

In a group, the collective dynamics is governed by the inter- actions between individuals, which can manifest differently depending on the available means of communication. In this paper, we compare 3 conditions of communication affordances (global chat, l ...

Springer2022

Teachers’ Perspective on Fostering Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

With the introduction of educational robotics (ER) and computational thinking (CT) in classrooms, there is a rising need for operational models that help ensure that CT skills are adequately developed. One such model is the Creative Computational Problem S ...

Springer2021

Dataset to Model the Sustainability of a Primary School Digital Education Curricular Reform and Professional Development Program

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse the sustainability of an in-service teacher training program for Digital Education that took place from September 2019 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. As such, the study f ...

Zenodo2022

The Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Promote Correct Handwriting Posture for Children

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

Persuasive social robots have the ability to influence human behaviour through social interaction, which makes them a valuable technological solution for all applications aiming to support a person's behaviour change. The recently proposed Child-Robot Rela ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Detecting Compensatory Motions and Providing Informative Feedback During a Tangible Robot Assisted Game for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Barbara Bruno, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Hala Khodr

Gamified rehabilitation tackles the problem of keeping patients engaged in, and motivated to do physical rehabilitation to improve its efficacy. However, with respect to standard rehabilitation, patients are freer to move about and may compensate their mot ...

IEEE2021

Language Learning using Caption Generation within Reciprocal Multi-Party Child-Tutor-Tutee Interaction

Barbara Bruno

Reciprocal Peer Tutoring (RPT) is a learning paradigm characteristic of collaborative interaction between learners with alternating tutortutee roles. In recent years, robot-assisted language learning (RALL) has gained traction by its wide application for l ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Immediate effects of short-duration wellbeing practices on children’s handwriting and posture guided by a social robot

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

Handwriting practising, as any other repetitive task, often leads the practiser to an overconcentration state where their performance might be affected by postural and mental fatigue. Short breaks to perform unrelated activities, especially relaxation exer ...

2023

The TACS Model: Understanding Primary School Teachers’ Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

Context With the introduction of computer science (CS) into curricula worldwide, teachers’ adoption of CS-pedagogical content is essential to ensure the long-term success of reform initiatives. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs play a key ...

2022

Being Part of the Swarm: Experiencing Human-Swarm Interaction with VR and Tangible Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Hala Khodr

A swarm is the coherent behavior that emerges ubiquitously fromsimple interaction rules between self-organized agents. Understand-ing swarms is of utmost importance in many disciplines and jobs,but hard to teach due to the elusive nature of the phenomenon, ...

2020