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most citedPaving the Way for Culturally Competent Robots: a Position Paper

62 citations · 148 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Investigating the role of educational robotics in formal mathematics education: the case of geometry for 15-year-old students

Jérôme Brender, Laila El-Hamamsy, Barbara Bruno +3

Research has shown that Educational Robotics (ER) enhances student performance, interest, engagement and collaboration. However, until now, the adoption of robotics in formal educa…

cs.CY2021★ 16 cited

Teachers' perspective on fostering computational thinking through educational robotics

Morgane Chevalier, Laila El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang +2

With the introduction of educational robotics (ER) and computational thinking (CT) in classrooms, there is a rising need for operational models that help ensure that CT skills are…

cs.PL2021★ 2 cited

Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots

Laila El-Hamamsy, Vaios Papaspyros, Taavet Kangur +5

Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with…

cs.RO2018★ 31 cited

Online Human Gesture Recognition using Recurrent Neural Networks and Wearable Sensors

Alessandro Carfi, Carola Motolese, Barbara Bruno +1

Gestures are a natural communication modality for humans. The ability to interpret gestures is fundamental for robots aiming to naturally interact with humans. Wearable sensors are…

cs.CY2018★ 62 cited

Paving the Way for Culturally Competent Robots: a Position Paper

Barbara Bruno, Nak Young Chong, Hiroko Kamide +9

Cultural competence is a well known requirement for an effective healthcare, widely investigated in the nursing literature. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise…

cs.RO2018★ 10 cited

A framework for Culture-aware Robots based on Fuzzy Logic

Barbara Bruno, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Federico Pecora +2

Cultural adaptation, i.e., the matching of a robot's behaviours to the cultural norms and preferences of its user, is a well known key requirement for the success of any assistive…