Publications by Ayberk Özgür

Smart Toys plus plus : Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning

Under the umbrella of smart toys, a myriad of interactive systems have addressed a variety of scenarios considering entertainment, education, sustainability, social and environmental learning through play. Tangibles and small toy robots prevail; but intera ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Detecting Compensatory Motions and Providing Informative Feedback During a Tangible Robot Assisted Game for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Barbara Bruno, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Hala Khodr, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Ayberk Özgür

Gamified rehabilitation tackles the problem of keeping patients engaged in, and motivated to do physical rehabilitation to improve its efficacy. However, with respect to standard rehabilitation, patients are freer to move about and may compensate their mot ...

IEEE2021

Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Barbara Bruno, Ayberk Özgür

A key element for the success of any game is its ability to produce a different experience at each round, thus keeping the player engagement high. This is particularly important for those games that also have a serious objective, such as gamified rehabilit ...

2020

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

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

Gamified Motor Training With Tangible Robots in Older Adults: A Feasibility Study and Comparison With the Young

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Ayberk Özgür, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Background: An increasing lifespan and the resulting change in our expectations of later life stages are dependent on a good health state. This emphasizes the importance of the development of strategies to further strengthen healthy aging. One important as ...

2020

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

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

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

PREC 2019: Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching

Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Exercising is strongly recommended for prevention and treatment of pathologies with high prevalence such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that insufficient physical activity is one of the leading ...

IEEE2019

TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür, Hala Khodr, Alex The Duy Tran

While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the us ...

ACM2019

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