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The CoWriter Project: Teaching a Robot how to Write

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This video (that accompanies the paper "When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting" by the same authors, and presented as well during this conference) presents the first results of the EPFL CoWriter project. The project aims at building a robotic partner which children can teach handwriting. The system allows for the learning by teaching paradigm to be employed in the interaction, so as to stimulate meta-cognition, empathy and increased self-esteem in the child user. It is hypothesised that use of a humanoid robot in such a system could not just engage an unmotivated student, but could also present the opportunity for children to experience physically-induced benefits encountered during human-led handwriting interventions, such as motor mimicry.

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The CoWriter Project: Teaching a Robot how to Write
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Control methods
      1. Robotic planning
    2. Planning and scheduling
      1. Robotic planning

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HRI'15 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

March 2015

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ISBN:9781450333184

DOI:10.1145/2701973

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Julie A. Adams
Vanderbilt University, USA
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Oregon State University, USA
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