Christian Giang

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Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study

Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

Background In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabilitation. Nevertheless, clinical studies have so far not been able to confirm superior efficacy of robotic therapy over conventional methods. The personaliza ...

2020

A multimodal approach to capture post-stroke temporal dynamics of recovery

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

Objective.Several training programs have been developed in the past to restore motor functions after stroke. Their efficacy strongly relies on the possibility to assess individual levels of impairment and recovery rate. However, commonly used clinical scal ...

2020

A Tangible Programming Language for the Educational Robot Thymio

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang, Andrea Mussati

In the past, the use of tangible programming languages has shown several advantages compared to screen-based graphical programming languages. Especially when presented to novices, such interfaces may represent a more intuitive and straightforward alternati ...

2019

Heuristics for the Development and Evaluation of Educational Robotics Systems

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang

Contribution: While previous research has studied the use of educational robotics in classrooms, there is still a lack of methods to support the development and evaluation of such tools. To this end, this paper presents an evaluation framework and a corres ...

2019

How do pupils perceive educational robotics as a tool to improve their 21st century skills?

Christian Giang

In the past years, the use of educational robots has steadily increased, in particular due to the ongoing digitalization of modern societies and the new skills that professions require. It has been argued that educational robotics activities have the poten ...

2019

System for personalized robotic therapy and related methods

Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method able to estimate motor improvement in real-time during three-dimensional rehabilitation tasks and to consequently dynamically personalize the therapy.The method can be carried out by a computer progr ...

2019

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How Do Pupils Perceive Educational Robotics as a Tool to Improve their 21St Century Skills?

Christian Giang