Learning by Teaching a Robot: The Case of Handwriting

• Published in: Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 23, num. 2, p. 56-66
• Piscataway: Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2016

Robots for education are not limited to support ICT teaching, and they are indeed finding new roles in the classroom. This article reports on such a new paradigm for educative robots, that involves learning by teaching and strong social engagement to help children struggling with handwriting. Our system relies on machine-learning and child-robot interaction with a small humanoid robot, and we present several real-world studies in schools and with occupational therapists that led us to promising initial results.

Reference

• Detailed record: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/218042?ln=en
• EPFL-ARTICLE-218042
• doi:10.1109/Mra.2016.2546700
• View record in Web of Science

• URL: http://chili.epfl.ch/cowriter