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Ana Paiva

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Spatial understanding and communication are essential skills in human interaction. An adequate understanding of others' spatial perspectives can increase the quality of the interaction, both perceptually and cognitively. In this paper, we take the first st ...

New York2022

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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

Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Ana Paiva

Geometry and handwriting rely heavily on the visual representation of basic shapes. It can become challenging for students with visual impairments to perceive these shapes and understand complex spatial constructs. For instance, knowing how to draw is high ...

ACM2020

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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 MACHINERY2020

Walk the Talk! Exploring (Mis)Alignment of Words and Deeds by Robotic Teammates in a Public Goods Game

Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

This paper explores how robotic teammates can enhance and promote cooperation in collaborative settings. It presents a user study in which participants engaged with two fully autonomous robotic partners to play a game together, named "For The Record", a va ...

IEEE2019

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In order to collaborate with humans, robots are often provided with a Theory of Mind (ToM) architecture. Such architectures can be evaluated by humans perception of the robot's adaptations. However, humans sensitivities to these adaptations are not the one ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering children's learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot that was designed to enhance children's handwriting skills. Exploiting the benefi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

When 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 ...

ACM2018

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This paper contributes a novel framework to efficiently learn cost-to-go function representations for robotic tasks with latent modes. The proposed approach relies on the principle behind ensemble methods, where improved performance is obtained by aggregat ...

2018

Workshop on Robots for Learning - R4L

Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ana Paiva

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 chal- lenges remain. Fo ...

2017