Progressive Development of an Autonomous Robot for Children through Parallel Comparison of Two Robots

ABSTRACT This study proposes and demonstrates a progressive development method for an autonomous robot that is used for childhood education. The main concept in this method is to iteratively explore new behavioral factors and use them to progressively develop the robot by concurrently using and comparing two robots in a classroom. Usually, in classrooms for young children, it is practically difficult to recruit a sufficient number of participants and conduct many experiments. The parallel comparison employed in the proposed method enables rapid development to deal with these difficulties

GestureCamシステム : カメラロボットを介した遠隔教育の試み

The authors are developing remote education system for hands-on training in class. The system is named the GestureCam system. The GestureCam is a remote-controlled actuator onto which a small camera and a laser pointer are mounted. The term "GestureCam System" includes other user interfaces which control the GestureCam, such as the master actuator and the touch-sensitive CRT. We expect the system to act as a surrogate teacher. In order to be a surrogate, the system should accommodate users viewing intentions; i.e. "to see what the user wants to see and to show what the user wants to show". Some remote education experiments were conducted via communication satellite. Based on these experiments, some design issues of the remote education system are discussed

Using Digital but Physical Surrogates to Mediate Awareness, Communication and Privacy in Media Spaces

Digital but physical surrogates are tangible representations of remote people, typically members of small intimate teams, positioned within an office and under digital control. Surrogates selectively collect and present awareness information about the people they represent. They also react to people's explicit and implicit physical actions: a person's explicit acts include grasping and moving them, while their implicit acts include how they move towards or away from the surrogate. By responding appropriately to these physical actions of people, surrogates can control the communication capabilities of a media space in a natural way. Surrogates also balance awareness and privacy by limiting and abstracting how activities are portrayed, and by offering different levels of salience to its users. The combination of all these attributes means that surrogates can make it easy for intimate collaborators to smoothly move from awareness of each other to casual interaction while mitigating privac..

MEDIATING AWARENESS AND COMMUNICATION THROUGH DIGITAL BUT PHYSICAL SURROGATES

Digital but physical surrogates are tangible representations of remote people positioned within an office and under digital control. Surrogates selectively collect and present awareness information about the people they represent. By having them react to physical actions of people, surrogates can control the communication capabilities of a media space. This enables the smooth transition from awareness to casual interaction while mitigating concerns about privacy.We are currently acquiring citations for the work deposited into this collection. We recognize the distribution rights of this item may have been assigned to another entity, other than the author(s) of the work.If you can provide the citation for this work or you think you own the distribution rights to this work please contact the Institutional Repository Administrator at [email protected]