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Computational Models of Mutual Understanding for Human-Robot Collaborative Learning

There is a growing trend towards designing learning activities featuring robots as collaborative exercises where children work together to achieve the activity objectives, generating interactions that can trigger learning processes. Witnessing such activit ...

EPFL2023

Efficacy of a ‘Misconceiving’ Robot to Improve Computational Thinking in a Collaborative Problem Solving Activity: A Pilot Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman, Alexandra Lara Chin

Robot-mediated learning activities are often designed as collaborative exercises where children work together to achieve the activity objectives. Although miscommunications and misunderstandings occur frequently, humans, unlike robots, are very good at ove ...

2022

Studying Alignment in a Collaborative Learning Activity via Automatic Methods: The Link Between What We Say and Do

Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman

A dialogue is successful when there is alignment between the speakers at different linguistic levels. In this work, we consider the dialogue occurring between interlocutors engaged in a collaborative learning task, where they are not only evaluated on how ...

2022

A Case for the Design of Attention and Gesture Systems for Social Robots

Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Romain Maure, Erik Alessandro Wengle

The success of social robots, even (or, especially) in use cases as simple as "manning" a booth to promote a product in a shopping mall, depends on their ability of interacting with humans in a timely, effective and enjoyable way. In this paper we present ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Mutual Modelling Ability for a Humanoid Robot: How can it improve my learning as we solve a problem together?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman

2021

When Positive Perception of the Robot Has No Effect on Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir, Utku Norman

Humanoid robots, with a focus on personalised social behaviours, are increasingly being deployed in educational settings to support learning. However, crafting pedagogical HRI designs and robot interventions that have a real, positive impact on participant ...

IEEE2020

Robot Analytics: What Do Human-Robot Interaction Traces Tell Us About Learning?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Utku Norman, Sina Shahmoradi

In this paper, we propose that the data generated by educational robots can be better used by applying learning analytics methods and techniques which can lead to a deeper understanding of the learners’ apprehension and behavior as well as refined guidelin ...

IEEE2019

Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Stian Haklev, Utku Norman, Sina Shahmoradi

Bringing robots into classrooms presents a new set of challenges for classroom management and teacher support compared to traditional technology-enhanced learning and has been left almost unexplored by the research community. In this paper, we present the ...

Springer, Cham2019