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A game-based approach for evaluating and customizing handwriting training using an autonomous social robot

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

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 ...

2022

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 ...

2021

“It Is Not the Robot Who Learns, It Is Me.” Treating Severe Dysgraphia Using Child–Robot Interaction

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

Extending the Spectrum of Dysgraphia: A Data Driven Strategy to Estimate Handwriting Quality

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Mateo Chapatte

This paper proposes new ways to assess handwriting, a critical skill in any child’s school journey. Traditionally, a pen and paper test called the BHK test (Concise Evaluation Scale for Children’s Handwriting) is used to assess children’s handwriting in Fr ...

2020

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

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Barbara Bruno, Ayberk Özgür

A large body of research suggests that robots could indeed be useful for supporting children in learning handwriting. However, few studies have investigated the role and use of tangible robots in teaching handwriting to children with attention and/or visuo ...

2020

Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Tangible Robot-Assisted Handwriting Activity for Special Education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Barbara Bruno, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Elmira Yadollahi

In this article we investigate the role of interactive haptic-enabled tangible robots in supporting the learning of cursive letter writing for children with attention and visuomotor coordination issues. We focus on the two principal aspects of handwriting ...

2020

A Simple, Inexpensive, Wearable Glove with Hybrid Resistive-Pressure Sensors for Computational Sensing, Proprioception, and Task Identification

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Wearable devices have many applications ranging from health analytics to virtual and mixed reality interaction, to industrial training. For wearable devices to be practical, they must be responsive, deformable to fit the wearer, and robust to the user's ra ...

John Wiley and Sons Inc.2020

Children Teach Handwriting to a Social Robot with Different Learning Competencies

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

As robots are entering into educational fields to enhance children's learning, it becomes relevant to explore different methods of learning in the area of child-robot interaction. In this article, we present an autonomous educational system incorporating a ...

SPRINGER2020

The Dynamics of Handwriting Improves the Automated Diagnosis of Dysgraphia

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

Handwriting disorder (termed dysgraphia) is a far from a singular problem as nearly 8.6% of the population in France is considered dysgraphic. Moreover, research highlights the fundamental importance to detect and remediate these handwriting difficulties a ...

2019

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