scholarly journals Which One? Choosing Favorite Robot After Different Styles of Storytelling and Robots’ Conversation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Maria Velentza ◽  
Nikolaos Fachantidis ◽  
Sofia Pliasa
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Human Care ◽  
The One ◽  
Head Gestures

The influence of human-care service robots in human–robot interaction is becoming of great importance, because of the roles that the robots are taking in today’s and future society. Thus, we need to identify how humans can interact, collaborate, and learn from social robots more efficiently. Additionally, it is important to determine the robots’ modalities that can increase the humans’ perceived likeness and knowledge acquisition and enhance human–robot collaboration. The present study aims to identify the optimal social service robots’ modalities that enhance the human learning process and level of enjoyment from the interaction and even attract the humans’ attention to choosing a robot to collaborate with it. Our target group was college students, pre-service teachers. For this purpose, we designed two experiments, each one split in two parts. Both the experiments were between groups, and human participants had the chance to watch the Nao robot performing a storytelling exercise about the history of robots in a museum-educational activity via video annotations. The robot’s modalities were manipulated on its body movements (expressive arm and head gestures) while performing the storytelling, friendly attitude expressions and storytelling, and personality traits. After the robot’s storytelling, participants filled out a knowledge acquisition questionnaire and a self-reported enjoyment level questionnaire. In the second part, we introduce the idea of participants witnessing a conversation between the robots with the different modalities, and they were asked to choose the robot with which they want to collaborate in a similar activity. Results indicated that participants prefer to collaborate with robots with a cheerful personality and expressive body movements. Especially when they were asked to choose between two robots that were cheerful and had expressive body movements, they preferred the one which originally told them the story. Moreover, participants did not prefer to collaborate with a robot with an extremely friendly attitude and storytelling style.

Social Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Service Robots

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Seok Ahn ◽  
JongSuk Choi ◽  
Hyungpil Moon ◽  
Minsu Jang ◽  
Sonya S. Kwak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Care Service ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Care

scholarly journals Deep Learning Based BCI Control of a Robotic Service Assistant Using Intelligent Goal Formulation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Kuhner ◽  
L.D.J. Fiederer ◽  
J. Aldinger ◽  
F. Burget ◽  
M. Völker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
User Study ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Referring Expressions ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Neuronal Signal ◽  
High Level ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Robotic Tasks

AbstractAs autonomous service robots become more affordable and thus available for the general public, there is a growing need for user-friendly interfaces to control these systems. Control interfaces typically get more complicated with increasing complexity of the robotic tasks and the environment. Traditional control modalities as touch, speech or gesture commands are not necessarily suited for all users. While non-expert users can make the effort to familiarize themselves with a robotic system, paralyzed users may not be capable of controlling such systems even though they need robotic assistance most. In this paper, we present a novel framework, that allows these users to interact with a robotic service assistant in a closed-loop fashion, using only thoughts. The system is composed of several interacting components: non-invasive neuronal signal recording and co-adaptive deep learning which form the brain-computer interface (BCI), high-level task planning based on referring expressions, navigation and manipulation planning as well as environmental perception. We extensively evaluate the BCI in various tasks, determine the performance of the goal formulation user interface and investigate its intuitiveness in a user study. Furthermore, we demonstrate the applicability and robustness of the system in real world scenarios, considering fetch-and-carry tasks and tasks involving human-robot interaction. As our results show, the system is capable of adapting to frequent changes in the environment and reliably accomplishes given tasks within a reasonable amount of time. Combined with high-level planning using referring expressions and autonomous robotic systems, interesting new perspectives open up for non-invasive BCI-based human-robot interactions.

scholarly journals DINAMICS OF LEARNING MOTIVATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS OF ISRAEL (ARAB SECTOR)

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 401-429
Author(s):  
Ahlam DARAWSHEH ◽  
Nadia GHALIA
Keyword(s):  
School Performance ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Arab Sector ◽  
The One

Addressing motivation as a triggering and supportive factor of educational activity emphasizes the importance of quality of information, learning experience, mediated learning, or positive attitude towards the act of knowledge in achieving school performance. According to the generally accepted conception, following the consultation of the specialized literature regarding the approach of the motivational phenomenon, we can say that motivation lies at the basis of the good functioning of human action components, regardless of the activity or tacquisition level of the one who makes the effort to achieve it.

Vision-based Human-Robot Interaction Components for URC Intelligent Service Robots

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keun-chang Kwak ◽  
Do-hyung Kim ◽  
Byoung-youl Song ◽  
Dae-ha Lee ◽  
Soo-young Chi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction

REPRESENTING THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN PRIVATE GYMNASIUM IN THE MATERIALS OF KREMENETS REGIONAL SOCIETY «PROSVITA» NAMED AFTER T. H.SHEVCHENKO

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
Halyna Senkivska
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Regional Society ◽  
National Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Life ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The One

In the article the author analyzes some aspects of the cultural and educational activity of Kremenets Gymnasium named after Ivan Steshenko referring to the materials of Kremenets regional society «Prosvita». The conducted analysis shows that the institution became the center of national life of Ukrainians in the region that contributed to the activation of the historical and ethnographic movement in Volyn. It was investigated that local lore studies were carried out on the one hand by Polish research and ethnographic societies, which used the support of the academic institutions of Poland, and on the other hand - Ukrainian local lore centers based on the cultural and educational centers of Western Ukraine, in particular on the Scientific Society of them. Shevchenko, «Prosvita», museum institutions, etc. And certain achievements of the local lore movement in Volhynia became possible to a large extent due to the active work of Prosvita in Kremenets, whose figures influenced the formation of the national consciousness of Ukrainians. On the basis of the analysis of the source base of the research, the investigator presents the facts of the opening of the Ukrainian gymnasium named after Ivan Steshenko, which began functioning on October 1, 1918, and became the focal point of the national life of Ukrainians in the region. At the request of Kremenets' Prosvita, the Ministry assigned her the name of Ivan Steshenko, an active figure of the UPR, the Minister of Education. The opening of the gymnasium was a major event in the life of the region, as it began its activity as a state and was the only Ukrainian secondary school in the whole county. Study of the Ukrainian language and history of Ukraine in the gymnasium was mandatory. The first director of this educational institution was Sergey Milyashkevich, and later in different years of activity – I. Rey, Kobrin, L. Kontsevich. Kremenets Gymnasium was famous for its pets: Ulas Samchuk, Oksana Lyaturinskaya, Cyril Kutsyuk-Kochinsky, Maria Kavun-Kreminyarivska, who became famous writers. Many students of the high school distinguished themselves in the field of Ukrainian writing, education and culture. The author has pointed out the fact that many gymnasium students have been taken an active part in the events of the 40–50's of the twentieth century. The attention has been emphasized on Mykola Medvetsky (pseudo Hrin) as the leader of the rebel formation, who belonged to the secret youth organization «Yunak», which had appeared in an educational establishment. The indisputable role of the gymnasium in forming the intellectuals of the region, which left a significant trace not only in the history of Kremenets but also throughout Ukraine, is noted. The author concludes that the Ukrainian gymnasium named after Ivan Steshenko at that time became the center of the historical and ethnographic movement in the region. In spite of the interference of the then system in scientific life, obstacles on the part of the authorities, the Ukrainian gymnasium did a lot for the national revival of the region, contributed to the establishment of national education. Materials concentrated in the rayon society "Prosvita", contribute to the understanding of its historical heritage, the formation of national consciousness.

scholarly journals Robot Partner Development Platform for Human-Robot Interaction Based on a User-Centered Design Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 7992
Author(s):  
Jinseok Woo ◽  
Yasuhiro Ohyama ◽  
Naoyuki Kubota
Keyword(s):  
System Integration ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Development Platform

This paper presents a robot partner development platform based on smart devices. Humans communicate with others based on the basic motivations of human cooperation and have communicative motives based on social attributes. Understanding and applying these communicative motives become important in the development of socially-embedded robot partners. Therefore, it is becoming more important to develop robots that can be applied according to needs while taking these human communication elements into consideration. The role of a robot partner is more important in not only on the industrial sector but also in households. However, it seems that it will take time to disseminate robots. In the field of service robots, the development of robots according to various needs is important and the system integration of hardware and software becomes crucial. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a robot partner development platform for human-robot interaction. Firstly, we propose a modularized architecture of robot partners using a smart device to realize a flexible update based on the re-usability of hardware and software modules. In addition, we show examples of implementing a robot system using the proposed architecture. Next, we focus on the development of various robots using the modular robot partner system. Finally, we discuss the effectiveness of the proposed robot partner system through social implementation and experiments.

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