Robots That Can Mix Serious with Fun (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the use of a robot platform for helping teachers and students in classrooms and at homes without degrading the academic achievement. We hypothesized that the robot can teach the same contents without degrading the academic achievement. In addition, it can improve the quality of teaching, mixing teaching with fun to attract students’ attention, repeat the contents without fatigue or anger and also providing pupils with special needs with the right contents in the right time. In this paper a 24 degrees of freedom (DOF) NAO robot is used for teaching an introduction to robotics to elementary school pupils. A GUI tool is designed to help teachers to easily upload slides of the subject’s contents. The robot presents the slides by reading it while generating random movements that resemble the body language of human presenters and teachers. The robot uses its camera to count the number of faces heading to it and use it as a measure of attention. When the number go...

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