Haptic-Enabled Handheld Mobile Robots

Özgür, Ayberk; Johal, Wafa; Mondada, Francesco; Dillenbourg, Pierre

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025994

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“…Haptic feedback has two significant characteristics that are useful for developing the skills needed for learning geometry and handwriting [29,32,39]. In essence, 1) they allow the user to feel the shape and spatial characteristics of the drawing (the grapheme), and 2) they can be used to guide the hand during the drawing activity (the ductus).…”

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Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences

Neto

Johal

Couto

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference

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Geometry and handwriting rely heavily on the visual representation of basic shapes. It can become challenging for students with visual impairments to perceive these shapes and understand complex spatial constructs. For instance, knowing how to draw is highly dependent on spatial and temporal components, which are often inaccessible to children with visual impairments. Hand-held robots, such as the Cellulo robots, open unique opportunities to teach drawing and writing through haptic feedback. In this paper, we investigate how these tangible robots could support inclusive, collaborative learning activities, particularly for children with visual impairments. We conducted a user study with 20 pupils with and without visual impairments, where they engaged in multiple drawing activities with tangible robots. We contribute novel insights on the design of children-robot interaction, learning shapes and letters, children engagement, and responses in a collaborative scenario that address the challenges of inclusive learning.

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Section: Educational Robots and Assistive Technologiesmentioning

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Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences

Neto

Johal

Couto

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference

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“…Our robots are low-cost, palm-sized tangible mobile robots, capable of holonomic motion, haptic feedback (see [31] for details) and absolute 3DOF global localization while on the printed paper sheets. 6 capacitive touch buttons individually illuminated with full RGB colors on the top surface provides simple visual output and touch input.…”

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Bringing letters to life

Asselborn

Özgür

Mrini

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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In this paper, we present a robotic approach to improve the teaching of handwriting using the tangible, haptic-enabled and classroom-friendly Cellulo robots. Our eforts presented here are in line with the philosophy of the Cellulo platform: we aim to create a ready-to-use tool (i.e. a set of robot-assisted activities) to be used for teaching handwriting, one that is to coexist harmoniously with traditional tools and will contribute new added values to the learning process, complementing existing teaching practices. To maximize our potential contributions to this learning process, we focus on two promising aspects of handwriting: the visual perception and the visual-motor coordination. These two aspects enhance in particular two sides of the representation of letters in the mind of the learner: the shape of the letter (the grapheme) and the way it is drawn, namely the dynamics of the letter (the ductus). With these two aspects in mind, we do a detailed content analysis for the process of learning the representation of letters, which leads us to discriminate the speciic skills involved in letter representation. We then compare our robotic * The irst two authors contributed equally to this work.

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“…This new design also allows us to render planar haptic feedback through a hybrid motion-haptics controller [4].…”

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Özgür

Johal

Mondada

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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One of the main issues with the acceptance of robotic tools in schools is the extracurricular aspect of the learning activities using these robots. In the Cellulo project, we developed a novel robotic platform that aims to provide a ubiquitous, versatile and practical tool for teachers with subjects varying among the different topics at their respective school curricula. In order to show the potential of Cellulo in the classroom as part of standard curricular activities, we designed a learning activity called Windfield that aims to teach the atmospheric formation mechanism of wind to early middle school children.

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Haptic-Enabled Handheld Mobile Robots

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences

Using tabletop robots to promote inclusive classroom experiences

Bringing letters to life

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