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When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Deanna Hood

This article presents a novel robotic partner which children can teach handwriting. The system relies on the learning by teaching paradigm to build an interaction, so as to stimulate meta-cognition, empathy and increased self-esteem in the child user. We h ...

2015

Teaching a Core CS Concept through Robotics

Roland Siegwart, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

We implemented single-session workshops using the Thymio- II—a small, self-contained robot designed for young stu- dents, and VPL—a graphical software development envi- ronment based upon event handling. Our goal was to in- vestigate if the students could ...

ACM2014

Verb concepts from affordances

In this paper, we investigate how the interactions of a robot with its environment can be used to create concepts that are typically represented by verbs in language. Towards this end, we utilize the notion of affordances to argue that verbs typically refe ...

John Benjamins Publishing Company2014

Quantifying the Human Likeness of a Humanoid Robot

Joachim von Zitzewitz

In research of human-robot interactions, human likeness (HL) of robots is frequently used as an individual, vague parameter to describe how a robot is perceived by a human. However, such a simplification of HL is often not sufficient given the complexity a ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Reflexive stability control framework for humanoid robots

Tadej Petric

In this paper we propose a general control framework for ensuring stability of humanoid robots, determined through a normalized zero-moment-point (ZMP). The proposed method is based on the modified prioritized kinematic control, which allows smooth and con ...

2013

A Model-Based Control Approach for Locomotion of Biped Robots

Salman Faraji

In this research we aim at proposing a general novel walking method for locomotion of torque controlled robots. The method should be able to produce a wide range of speeds without requiring oﬀ-line optimizations and re-tuning of parameters. It should be ca ...

2013

Motion capture and reinforcement learning of dynamically stable humanoid movement primitives

Tadej Petric

Direct transfer of human motion trajectories to humanoid robots does not result in dynamically stable robot movements due to the differences in human and humanoid robot kinematics and dynamics. We developed a system that converts human movements captured b ...

IEEE2013

The Vernissage Corpus: A Multimodal Human-Robot-Interaction Dataset

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Laurent Son Nguyen, Samira Sheikhi

We introduce a new multimodal interaction dataset with extensive annotations in a conversational Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) scenario. It has been recorded and annotated to benchmark many relevant perceptual tasks, towards enabling a robot to converse wi ...

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Face classification using touch with a humanoid robot hand

Aude Billard, Nicolas Sommer

This paper presents an experiment in which the iCub humanoid robot learns to recognize faces through proprioceptive information. We take inspiration in the way blind people recognize people's faces, i.e. through tactile exploration of the person's face. Th ...

2012

Development of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm and Hand for Interactive Humanoids

Jamie Paik

Humanoid robots are designed and built to mimic human form and movement. Ultimately, they are meant to resemble the size and physical abilities of a human in order to function in human-oriented environments and to work autonomously but to pose no physical ...

2012