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Accessible Maker-based Approaches to Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Amaury Robert Dame, Aditya Mehrotra

Educational Robotics holds the potential to promote the development of important 21st century skills, such as creativity and problem-solving skills in addition to digital literacy. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has posed particular obstac ...

2021

Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues, Marion Sandy Curdy

Interpersonal skills require mastering a wide range of competencies such as communication and adaptation to different situations. Effective training includes the use of videos in which role models perform the desired behaviours such that trainees can learn ...

2021

Probabilistic Adaptive Control for Robust Behavior Imitation

Sylvain Calinon, Hakan Girgin, Julius Maximilian Jankowski

In the context of learning from demonstration (LfD), trajectory policy representations such as probabilistic movement primitives (ProMPs) allow for rich modeling of demonstrated skills. To reproduce a learned skill with a real robot, a feedback controller ...

IEEE2021

Demonstration of Roteco - the robotic teacher community: An informative, collaborative platform with a unique community ecosystem

Melissa Anne Skweres, Sophia Reyes Mury

Today the digital society in which we live requires the acquisition of new computer-related skills, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. Preparing and insp ...

ACM2021

User Expectations of Conversational Chatbots Based on Online Reviews

Pearl Pu Faltings, Ekaterina Svikhnushina

Open-domain chatbots that can engage in a conversation on any topic received significant attention in the last several years, which opened opportunities for studying user interaction with them. Drawing from reviews of chatbots posted on Google Play, we exp ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Application of virtual reality in neurosurgery: Patient missing. A systematic review

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Virtual reality (VR) technology had its earliest developments in the 1970s in the U.S. Air Force and has since evolved into a budding area of scientific research with many practical medical purposes. VR shows a high potential to benefit to learners and tra ...

2021

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Helena Kovacs, Lucille Delisle, Mirjam Mekhaiel

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

University of Twente2020

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