Publications associées à Handwriting

A game-based approach for evaluating and customizing handwriting training using an autonomous social robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Handwriting learning is a long and complex process that takes about ten years to be fully mastered. Nearly one-third of all children aged 4-12 experiences handwriting difficulties and, sadly, most of them are left to fight them on their own, due to the sca ...

IEEE2022

The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

Do handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our measures of handwriting skills intrinsically bound to one alphabet or will a child who faces handwriting difficulties in one scri ...

2021

“It Is Not the Robot Who Learns, It Is Me.” Treating Severe Dysgraphia Using Child–Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, David Cohen

Writing disorders are frequent and impairing. However, social robots may help to improve children's motivation and to propose enjoyable and tailored activities. Here, we have used the Co-writer scenario in which a child is asked to teach a robot how to wri ...

2021

Extending the Spectrum of Dysgraphia: A Data Driven Strategy to Estimate Handwriting Quality

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Mateo Chapatte

This paper proposes new ways to assess handwriting, a critical skill in any child’s school journey. Traditionally, a pen and paper test called the BHK test (Concise Evaluation Scale for Children’s Handwriting) is used to assess children’s handwriting in Fr ...

Nature Research2020

Analysis and Remediation of Handwriting difficulties

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Even with correct training, up to 25% of children never master handwriting like their peers. While research shows a correlation between handwriting difficulties and school failure, these difficulties can also impact children in their self esteem and behavi ...

EPFL2020

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

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

Children Teach Handwriting to a Social Robot with Different Learning Competencies

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

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

Learning How to Write with a Social Robot

Shruti Chandra

Learning handwriting is one of the main occupations for children in primary education. It is a complex skill that has been associated with children’s learning and development. Poor handwriting skills affect children negatively concerning their academic per ...

EPFL2019

Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Lukasz Kidzinski, David Cohen, Thomas Dany Sylvain Gargot

The academic and behavioral progress of children is associated with the timely development of reading and writing skills. Dysgraphia, characterized as a handwriting learning disability, is usually associated with dyslexia, developmental coordination disord ...

2018