nach oben

Erschienen in:

2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture

verfasst von : Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Maria Blancas, Riccardo Zucca, Pedro Omedas, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Davison, Vicky Charisi, Frances Wijnen, Jan van der Meij, Vanessa Evers, David Cameron, Samuel Fernando, Roger Moore, Tony Prescott, Daniele Mazzei, Michael Pieroni, Lorenzo Cominelli, Roberto Garofalo, Danilo De Rossi, Paul F. M. J. Verschure

Erschienen in: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config

KI-gestützte Suche

Aus

Abstract

Robots are gradually but steadily being introduced in our daily lives. A paramount application is that of education, where robots can assume the role of a tutor, a peer or simply a tool to help learners in a specific knowledge domain. Such endeavor posits specific challenges: affective social behavior, proper modelling of the learner’s progress, discrimination of the learner’s utterances, expressions and mental states, which, in turn, require an integrated architecture combining perception, cognition and action. In this paper we present an attempt to improve the current state of robots in the educational domain by introducing the EASEL EU project. Specifically, we introduce the EASEL’s unified robot architecture, an innovative Synthetic Tutor Assistant (STA) whose goal is to interactively guide learners in a science-based learning paradigm, allowing us to achieve such rich multimodal interactions.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Vorheriges Kapitel Eye-Head Stabilization Mechanism for a Humanoid Robot Tested on Human Inertial Data

Nächstes Kapitel Aplysia Californica as a Novel Source of Material for Biohybrid Robots and Organic Machines

Han, J.-H., Jo, M.-H., Jones, V., Jo, J.-H.: Comparative study on the educational use of home robots for children. J. Inf. Process. Syst. 4(4), 159–168 (2008)CrossRef

Beer, R.D., Chiel, H.J., Drushel, R.F.: Using autonomous robotics to teach science and engineering. Commun. ACM 42(6), 85–92 (1999)CrossRef

Mondada, F., Bonani, M., Raemy, X., Pugh, J., Cianci, C., Klaptocz, A., Magnenat, S., Zufferey, J.-C., Floreano, D., Martinoli, A.: The e-puck, a robot designed for education in engineering. In: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems, Competitions, vol. 1, pp. 59–65. Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (2009)

Wijnen, F., Charisi, V., Davison, D., van der Meij, J., Reidsma, D., Evers, V.: Inquiry learning with a social robot: can you explain that to me? In: Heerink, M., de Jong, M. (eds.) Proceedings of New Friends 2015: The 1st international conference on social robotics in therapy and education, pp. 24–25, Windesheim Flevoland, Almere (2015)

Kanda, T., Hirano, T., Eaton, D., Ishiguro, H.: Interactive robots as social partners and peer tutors for children: a field trial. Hum.-Comput. Interact. 19(1), 61–84 (2004)CrossRef

Saerbeck, M., Schut, T., Bartneck, C., Janse, M.D.: Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1613–1622. ACM (2010)

Shin, N., Kim, S.: Learning about, from, with robots: students’ perspectives. In: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2007, pp. 1040–1045. IEEE (2007)

Vouloutsi, V., Munoz, M.B., Grechuta, K., Lallee, S., Duff, A., Llobet, J.-Y.P., Verschure, P.F.M.J.: A new biomimetic approach towards educational robotics: the distributed adaptive control of a synthetic tutor assistant. New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, p. 22 (2015)

Blancas, M., Vouloutsi, V., Grechuta, K., Verschure, P.F.M.J.: Effects of the robot’s role on human-robot interaction in an educational scenario. In: Wilson, S.P., Verschure, P.F.M.J., Mura, A., Prescott, T.J. (eds.) Living Machines 2015. LNCS, vol. 9222, pp. 391–402. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)CrossRef

10.

Balch, T., et al.: Designing personal robots for education: hardware, software and curriculum. IEEE Pervasive Comput. 7(2), 5–9 (2008)CrossRef

11.

Highfield, K., Mulligan, J., Hedberg, J.: Early mathematics learning through exploration with programmable toys. In: Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of PME 32 and PME-NA, pp. 169–176. Citeseer (2008)

12.

Mubin, O., Stevens, C.J., Shahid, S., Al Mahmud, A., Dong, J.-J.: A review of the applicability of robots in education. J. Technol. Educ. Learn. 1, 209–215 (2013)

13.

Piaget, J., Inhelder, B.: The Psychology of the Child. Basic Books, New York (1972)

14.

Papert, S., Harel, I.: Situating constructionism. Constructionism 36, 1–11 (1991)

15.

Vygotsky, L.S.: Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (1980)

16.

Charisi, V., Davison, D., Wijnen, F., Van Der Meij, J., Reidsma, D., Prescott, T., Van Joolingen, W., Evers, V.: Towards a child-robot symbiotic co-development: a theoretical approach. In: AISB Convention 2015, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) (2015)

17.

Verschure, P.F.M.J.: Distributed adaptive control: a theory of the mind, brain, body nexus. Biologically Inspired Cogn. Architectures 1, 55–72 (2012)CrossRef

18.

Verschure, P.F.M.J., Voegtlin, T., Douglas, R.J.: Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robots. Nature 425, 620–624 (2003)CrossRef

19.

Verschure, P.F.M.J., Pennartz, C.M., Pezzulo, G.: The why, what, where, when and how of goal-directed choice: neuronal and computational principles. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 369(1655), 20130483 (2014)CrossRef

20.

Maffei, G., Santos-Pata, D., Marcos, E., Sánchez-Fibla, M., Verschure, P.F.M.J.: An embodied biologically constrained model of foraging: from classical and operant conditioning to adaptive real-world behavior in DAC-X. Neural Netw. 72, 88–108 (2015)CrossRef

21.

Kruger, J., Dunning, D.: Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 77(6), 1121 (1999)CrossRef

22.

Abramson, L.Y., Seligman, M.E., Teasdale, J.D.: Learned helplessness in humans: critique and reformulation. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 87(1), 49 (1978)CrossRef

23.

Seligman, M.E.: Learned helplessness. Annu. Rev. Med. 23(1), 407–412 (1972)CrossRef

24.

Inhelder, B., Piaget, J.: The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence: An Essay on the Construction of Formal Operational Structures. Basic Books, New York (1958)CrossRef

25.

Siegler, R.S.: Three aspects of cognitive development. Cogn. Psychol. 8(4), 481–520 (1976)CrossRef

26.

Siegler, R.S., Strauss, S., Levin, I.: Developmental sequences within and between concepts. Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Dev. 46, 631–683 (1981)CrossRef

27.

Metta, G., Fitzpatrick, P., Natale, L.: Yarp: yet another robot platform. Int. J. Adv. Rob. Syst. 3(1), 43–48 (2006)

28.

Povey, D., Ghoshal, A., Boulianne, G., Burget, L., Glembek, O., Goel, N., Hannemann, M., Motlicek, P., Qian, Y., Schwarz, P., et al.: The kaldi speech recognition toolkit. In: IEEE 2011 workshop on automatic speech recognition and understanding, no. EPFL-CONF-192584. IEEE Signal Processing Society (2011)

29.

Zaraki, A., Mazzei, D., Giuliani, M., De Rossi, D.: Designing and evaluating a social gaze-control system for a humanoid robot. IEEE Trans. Hum.-Mach. Syst. 44(2), 157–168 (2014)CrossRef

30.

Zaraki, A., Mazzei, D., Lazzeri, N., Pieroni, M., De Rossi, D.: Preliminary implementation of context-aware attention system for humanoid robots. In: Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Krapp, H.G., Verschure, P.F.M.J., Prescott, T.J. (eds.) Living Machines 2013. LNCS, vol. 8064, pp. 457–459. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)CrossRef

31.

Reidsma, D., van Welbergen, H.: AsapRealizer in practice - a modular and extensible architecture for a bml realizer. Entertainment Comput. 4(3), 157–169 (2013)CrossRef

32.

van Welbergen, H., Yaghoubzadeh, R., Kopp, S.: AsapRealizer 2.0: the next steps in fluent behavior realization for ECAs. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds.) IVA 2014. LNCS, vol. 8637, pp. 449–462. Springer, Heidelberg (2014)

33.

Vouloutsi, V., Lallée, S., Verschure, P.F.M.J.: Modulating behaviors using allostatic control. In: Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Krapp, H.G., Verschure, P.F.M.J., Prescott, T.J. (eds.) Living Machines 2013. LNCS, vol. 8064, pp. 287–298. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)CrossRef

34.

Lallée, S., Vouloutsi, V., Wierenga, S., Pattacini, U., Verschure, P.F.M.J: Efaa: a companion emerges from integrating a layered cognitive architecture. In: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 105–105. ACM (2014)

35.

ter Maat, M., Heylen, D.: Flipper: an information state component for spoken dialogue systems. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds.) IVA 2011. LNCS, vol. 6895, pp. 470–472. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)CrossRef

36.

Lazzeri, N., Mazzei, D., Zaraki, A., De Rossi, D.: Towards a believable social robot. In: Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Krapp, H.G., Verschure, P.F.M.J., Prescott, T.J. (eds.) Living Machines 2013. LNCS, vol. 8064, pp. 393–395. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)CrossRef

Titel: Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture
verfasst von: Vasiliki Vouloutsi
Maria Blancas
Riccardo Zucca
Pedro Omedas
Dennis Reidsma
Daniel Davison
Vicky Charisi
Frances Wijnen
Jan van der Meij
Vanessa Evers
David Cameron
Samuel Fernando
Roger Moore
Tony Prescott
Daniele Mazzei
Michael Pieroni
Lorenzo Cominelli
Roberto Garofalo
Danilo De Rossi
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-42416-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-42417-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_32

Springer Professional

Abstract

Bitte loggen Sie sich ein, um Zugang zu Ihrer Lizenz zu erhalten.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"