Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Deanna Hood, Ana Paiva
Robots for education are not limited to support ICT teaching, and they are indeed finding new roles in the classroom. This article reports on such a new paradigm for educative robots, that involves learning by teaching and strong social engagement to help children struggling with handwriting. Our system relies on machine-learning and child-robot interaction with a small humanoid robot, and we present several real-world studies in schools and with occupational therapists that led us to promising initial results.
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016