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Workshop on Robots for Learning: R4L

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

While robots have been popular as a tool for STEM teaching, the use of robots in other learning scenarios is novel. The field of HRI has started to report on how to make effective robots usable in educational contexts. However, many challenges remain. For ...

ACM2017

“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

Windfield: Demonstrating Wind Meteorology with Handheld Haptic Robots

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

One of the main issues with the acceptance of robotic tools in schools is the extracurricular aspect of the learning activities using these robots. In the Cellulo project, we developed a novel robotic platform that aims to provide a ubiquitous, versatile a ...

ACM2017

Keep on Moving! Exploring Anthropomorphic Effects of Motion during Idle Moments

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

In this paper, we explored the effect of a robot’s subconscious gestures made during moments when idle (also called adaptor gestures) on anthropomorphic perceptions of five year old children. We developed and sorted a set of adaptor motions based on their ...

2017

Child-Robot Spatial Arrangement in a Learning by Teaching Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Alexis David Jacq

In this paper, we present an experiment in the context of a child-robot interaction where we study the influence of the child-robot spatial arrangement on the child’s focus of attention and the perception of the robot’s performance. In the “Co-Writer learn ...

Ieee2016

Robots for Learning - R4L: Adaptive Learning

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The Robots for Learning workshop series aims at advancing the research topics related to the use of social robots in educational contexts. This year's half-day workshop follows on previous events in Human-Robot Interaction conferences focusing on efforts t ...

2019

Magnet-assisted ball drive

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

The present invention concerns a magnet-assisted ball drive. The drive comprises a ball and a drive element in contact with the ball. The drive element is arranged to be rotated around its axis of rotation to drive the ball. The ball and the drive element ...

2019

Robot Analytics: What Do Human-Robot Interaction Traces Tell Us About Learning?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Utku Norman, Sina Shahmoradi

In this paper, we propose that the data generated by educational robots can be better used by applying learning analytics methods and techniques which can lead to a deeper understanding of the learners’ apprehension and behavior as well as refined guidelin ...

IEEE2019

The near future of children's robotics

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

Robotics is a multidisciplinary and highly innovative field. Recently, multiple and often minimally connected sub - communities of child - robot interaction have started to emerge , variously focusing on the design issues , engineering, and applications of ...

2018

Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Utku Norman, Stian Haklev, Sina Shahmoradi

Bringing robots into classrooms presents a new set of challenges for classroom management and teacher support compared to traditional technology-enhanced learning and has been left almost unexplored by the research community. In this paper, we present the ...

Springer, Cham2019

Robots for Learning - R4L: Inclusive Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The Robots for Learning workshop series aims at advancing the research topics related to the use of social robots in educational contexts. The full-day workshop follows on previous events in Human-Robot Interaction conferences focusing on efforts to design ...

ACM2018

Reply: Limitations in the creation of an automatic diagnosis tool for dysgraphia

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

Springer2019

Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Robots bring a new potential for embodied learning in classrooms. With our project, we aim to ease the task for teachers and to show the worth of tangible manipulation of robots in educational contexts. In this article, we present the design and the evalua ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Learning By Collaborative Teaching : An Engaging Multi-Party CoWriter Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Jauwairia Nasir

This paper presents the design of a novel and engaging collaborative learning activity for handwriting where a group of participants simultaneously tutor a Nao robot. This activity was intended to take advantage of both collaborative learning and the learn ...

2019

Windfield: Learning Wind Meteorology with Handheld Haptic Robots

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

This article presents a learning activity and its user study involving the Cellulo platform, a novel versatile robotic tool designed for education. In order to show the potential of Cellulo in the classroom as part of standard curricular activities, we des ...

ACM2017

Method of handwritten character recognition confirmation

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

The present invention concerns a method for an artificial neural network to confirm the recognition of handwritten characters produced by a user. The method comprising: training (21) the artificial neural network with a training data set comprising a first ...

2019

CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot - Video

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

This is an explanatory video that gives a short overview of the CoWriting Kazakh project(1) that aims to implement an autonomous behavior of a social robot that would assist and motivate children in learning a new script and its associated handwriting. The ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Method of analysing handwritten items

Corinne Fabienne Lebourgeois, Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

The present invention according to one embodiment concerns a computer-implemented method of analysing handwritten characters produced by a user. The method comprises: collecting (107) handwritten characters of the user, the user being part of a given user ...

2021

Iterative Design of an Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Kshitij Sharma, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

2018

Permanent Magnet-Assisted Omnidirectional Ball Drive

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür

We present an omnidirectional ball wheel drive design that utilizes a permanent magnet as the drive roller to generate the contact force. Particularly interesting for novel human-mobile robot interaction scenarios where the users are expected to physically ...

IEEE2016