EMOTE project

EMbodied perceptive Tutors for Empathy-based learning

Last updated on May 15, 2024

featuring the NAO robot. © Tiago Ribeiro

The EMOTE project was a three-year EU-FP7 project that aimed at creating empathic artificial tutors to be used in real classrooms. These tutors serve as a tool for the teachers, by playing pedagogical games on the topics of map-reading, and sustainable development. They are able to autonomously adapt to the students and guide them throughout the activities, while also relating the activity with the goals of the curriculum. I participated in the architectural design, lead the development of the integration infrastructure, the main behaviour module, plus a control system and animations for the NAO robot.

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Publications

Map Reading with an Empathic Robot Tutor

Lynne Hall, Colette Hume, Sarah Tazzyman, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Fotis Papadopoulos, Aidan Jones, Others

The SERA Ecosystem: Socially Expressive Robotics Architecture for Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction

Tiago Ribeiro, André Pereira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Ana Paiva

An Empathic Robotic Tutor for School Classrooms: Considering Expectation and Satisfaction of Children as End-Users

Patrı́cia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Sofia Petisca, Eugenio Di Tullio, Francisco S Melo, Ana Paiva

Empathic Robotic Tutors: Map Guide.

Amol a Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Tiago Ribeiro, Lee Joseph Corrigan, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Fotios Papadopoulos, Ginevra Castellano

The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot

Tiago Ribeiro, Patrı́cia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Pedro Sequeira, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Aidan Jones, Lee J Corrigan, Others

“How do you imagine robots?” Children’s Expectations About Robots

Patrı́cia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Petisca, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva

Developing Interactive Embodied Characters Using the Thalamus Framework: A Collaborative Approach

Tiago Ribeiro, Eugenio Di Tullio, Lee J Corrigan, Aidan Jones, Fotios Papadopoulos, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva

From Thalamus to Skene: High-level Behaviour Planning and Management for Mixed-Reality Characters

Tiago Ribeiro, André Pereira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Ana Paiva

I'm the Mayor: a Robot Tutor in Enercities-2

Tiago Ribeiro, André Pereira, Amol Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva

Meet Me Halfway: Eye Behaviour as an Expression of Robot's Language.

Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Tiago Ribeiro, Ana Paiva, Others

Towards Dialogue Dimensions for a Robotic Tutor in Collaborative Learning Scenarios

Patrı́cia Alves-Oliveira, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Ana Candeias, Amol Deshmukh, Tiago Ribeiro, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva, Ruth Aylett