Publications de Alexis David Jacq

Mutual Understanding in Educational Human-Robot Collaborations

Education is an art close to theater. A teacher is taking a role; he works his speeches and his gestures and he plays with the attention of his audience. But it is harder: more than entertaining, a teacher must shape the skills, the knowledge and the motiv ...

EPFL2020

Sensitivity To Perceived Mutual Understanding In Human-Robot Collaborations

Pierre Dillenbourg, Alexis David Jacq, Ana Paiva

In order to collaborate with humans, robots are often provided with a Theory of Mind (ToM) architecture. Such architectures can be evaluated by humans perception of the robot's adaptations. However, humans sensitivities to these adaptations are not the one ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

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

Child-Robot Spatial Arrangement in a Learning by Teaching Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Alexis David Jacq, Ana Paiva

In this paper, we present an experiment in the context of a child-robot interaction where we study the influence of the child-robot spatial arrangement on the child’s focus of attention and the perception of the robot’s performance. In the “Co-Writer learn ...

Ieee2016