hri2018

R4L @HRI 2018

Inclusive Learning

A Multimodal Approach to Adaptive Dialogue Interaction for Learning Companion Robots

Learning companion robots that support spoken natural language dialogue present exciting opportunities for adaptive and personalized interaction. We hypothesize that adaptive robot behaviors can have a positive effect on student motivation. …

Expressive Robotic Patient Simulators for Clinical Education

Robotic patient simulators are the most commonly used robot in clinical education and provide low-risk, high-fidelity learning experiences. They are life-sized humanoid robots that can simulate human physiological responses. Commercially available …

Learning with Robots in CS and STEM Education: A Case Study with ISEP-R0B0

ISEP-R0B0 is a project which combines a small programmable robot and a visual programming language. Its goal is to provide a full-fledged system at a very low cost, targeting schools but also informal learning situations such as after-class …

Robots in the classroom: Learning to be a Good Tutor

To broaden the adoption and be more inclusive, robotic tutors need to tailor their behaviours to their audience. Traditional approaches, such as Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, try to adapt the content of lessons or the difficulty of tasks to the current …

Spatial Referring Expressions in Child-Robot Interaction: Let's Be Ambiguous!

Establishing common ground when attempting to disambiguate spatial locations is difficult at the best of times, but is even more challenging between children and robots. Here, we present a study that examined how 94 children (aged 5-8) communicate …

Tangible Robots Mediated Collaborative Rehabilitation Design: Can we Find Inspiration from Scripting Collaborative Learning?

Due to the high intensity and repetitiveness of the exercises, rehabilitation process may be frustrating for the patients and it may results with poor treatment results. One promising way to increase motivation to provide social support through …

Toward A Companion Robot Fostering Perseverance in Math - A Pilot Study

Challenging math problems provide rich opportunities to cultivate perseverance to forge ahead in face of ambiguity or difficulty. An ideal teacher closely monitors the problem solving process and provides personalized cognitive, emotional or social …

Towards Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Adaptive and Personalized Cognitive Training

In the present article, we investigate children's perceptions of a robot in a one-to-one 'learning-by-teaching' scenario where a robot acts as a 'learner' and a child as a 'tutor'. The child interacts with the robot in multiple-sessions. The robot …