Publications de Séverin Lemaignan

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

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Léa Marie Pereyre, Ayberk Özgür, Séverin Lemaignan, Manon Aline Briod, Maria Maria Beltran Reyes

In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by designing them to be pe ...

ACM2017

The symmetry of partner modelling

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Séverin Lemaignan, Mirweis Sangin, Gaëlle Molinari

Collaborative learning has often been associated with the construction of a shared understanding of the situation at hand. The psycholinguistics mechanisms at work while establishing common grounds are the object of scientific controversy. We postulate tha ...

Springer2016

Children’s Peer Assessment and Self-disclosure in the Presence of an Educational Robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Séverin Lemaignan, Ana Paiva

Research in education has long established how children mutually influence and support each other's learning trajectories, eventually leading to the development and widespread use of learning methods based on peer activities. In order to explore children's ...

2016

Building Successful Long Child-Robot Interactions in a Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Ana Paiva

The CoWriter activity involves a child in a rich and complex interaction where he has to teach handwriting to a robot. The robot must convince the child it needs his help and it actually learns from his lessons. To keep the child engaged, the robot must le ...

IEEE2016

From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia

Measuring ``how much the human is in the interaction'' -- the level of engagement -- is instrumental in building effective interactive robots. Engagement, however, is a complex, multi-faceted cognitive mechanism that is only indirectly observable. This art ...

Ieee2016

Real-Time High-Accuracy 2D Localization with Structured Patterns

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Séverin Lemaignan, Ayberk Özgür, Lukas Oliver Hostettler

Building over algorithms previously developed for digital pens, this article introduces a novel 2D localization technique for mobile robots, based on simple printed patterns. This method combines high absolute accuracy (below 0.3mm), unlimited scalability, ...

IEEE2016

Can a Child Feel Responsible for Another in the Presence of a Robot in a Collaborative Learning Activity?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Séverin Lemaignan, Ana Paiva

In order to explore the impact of integrating a robot as a facilitator in a collaborative activity, we examined interpersonal distancing of children both with a human adult and a robot facilitator. Our scenario involves two children performing a collaborat ...

2015

Ranger, an Example of Integration of Robotics into the Home Ecosystem

Francesco Mondada, Séverin Lemaignan, Julia Fink, David Mansolino

This paper presents the concept and an example of robject, a robotic entity embedded in an everyday object. Robjects use the affordance of the original object to ensure an efficient interaction and a high acceptance. The example of the ranger robot shows t ...

Springer International Publishing2015

A review: Can robots reshape K-12 STEM education?

Francesco Mondada, Séverin Lemaignan, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim

Can robots in classroom reshape K-12 STEM education, and foster new ways of learning? To sketch an answer, this article reviews, side-by-side, existing literature on robot-based learning activities featuring mathematics and physics (purposefully putting as ...

IEEE2015