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The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet
Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal
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 ...
2021Analysis 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 ...
EPFL2020A Politics of Intellectual Property Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France
Economic interpretations, in particular the lens of the Industrial Revolution, have strongly influenced our understanding of the rise of intellectual property. This article examines the political origins of the 1791 patent law in France, which is usually s ...
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS2020Changing Perspective as A Learning Mechanism
Pierre Dillenbourg, Elmira Yadollahi, Ana Paiva
One of the numerous approaches that increases the interaction quality between two people is having a proper understanding of the other person's perspective. In this doctoral thesis, we aim to understand children's perspective taking behavior, create a pers ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration
Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi, Ana Paiva
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 ...
ACM2018Keep on Moving! Exploring Anthropomorphic Effects of Motion during Idle Moments
Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal
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 ...
2017Building Successful Long Child-Robot Interactions in a Learning Context
Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Ana Paiva
The CoWriter activity involves a child in a rich and complex interaction where he has to teach handwriting to a robot. The robot must convince the child it needs his help and it actually learns from his lessons. To keep the child engaged, the robot must le ...
IEEE2016Building Successful Long Child-Robot Interactions in a Learning Context
Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Fernando Garcia, Ana Paiva
The CoWriter activity involves a child in a rich and complex interaction where he has to teach handwriting to a robot. The robot must convince the child it needs his help and it actually learns from his lessons. To keep the child engaged, the robot must le ...
Assoc Computing Machinery2016Stealth Assessment in ITS - A Study for Developmental Dyscalculia
Intelligent tutoring systems are adapting the curriculum to the needs of the student. The integration of stealth assessments of student traits into tutoring systems, i.e. the automatic detection of student characteristics has the potential to refine this a ...
2016