Design of Engineering Education System Using Long-Distance-Controlled Robots

Minamide, Akiyuki; Takemata, Kazuya; Hoon, Pee Suat

doi:10.1109/icalt.2009.116

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“…by the LDCR system, and clarified the effectiveness in the international exchange. [4] In this paper, the problem of the LDCR system that has already developed for international exchange is explained first. Next, an outline of a new LDCR system that redesigns for distance education is described.…”

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Design of a Long-Distance-Controlled Robot System for Distance Education

Minamide

Takemata

Hastie

2011

2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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This paper described the design of a new LongDistance-Controlled Robot (LDCR) System for distance education.Distance education is a teaching method with the aim of delivering teaching to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom. It is difficult to keep student's motivation for learning though an educational technique that uses various technologies is designed

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Design of a Long-Distance-Controlled Robot System for Distance Education

Minamide

Takemata

Hastie

2011

2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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“…Embodied as a robot, the remotely located office worker was able interact with colleagues as per normal. Other types of telepresence robots for human environments are emerging in the areas of medical consultations [7][8][9][10][11][12], long distance education [13][14][15] and social networking [16][17][18]. Moreover, telepresence robots are being used as research platforms to understand humanrobot personal relationships [19][20][21].…”

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Telerobotic Pointing Gestures Shape Human Spatial Cognition

Cabibihan

Saj

et al. 2012

Int J of Soc Robotics

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This paper aimed to explore whether human beings can understand gestures produced by telepresence robots. If it were the case, they can derive meaning conveyed in telerobotic gestures when processing spatial information. We conducted two experiments over Skype in the present study. Participants were presented with a robotic interface that had arms, which were teleoperated by an experimenter. The robot could point to virtual locations that represented certain entities. In Experiment 1, the experimenter described spatial locations of fictitious objects sequentially in two conditions: speech condition (SO, verbal descriptions clearly indicated the spatial layout) and speech and gesture condition (SR, verbal descriptions were ambiguous but accompanied by robotic pointing gestures). Participants were then asked to recall the objects' spatial locations. We found that the number of spatial locations recalled in the SR condition was on par with that in the SO condition, suggesting that telerobotic pointing gestures compensated ambiguous speech during the process of spatial information. In Experiment 2, the experimenter described spatial locations nonsequentially in the SR and SO conditions. Surprisingly, the number of spatial locations recalled in the SR condition was even higher than that in the SO condition, suggesting that telerobotic pointing gestures were more powerful than speech in conveying spatial information when information was presented in an unpredictable order. The findings provide evidence that human beings are able to comprehend telerobotic gestures, and importantly, integrate these gestures with co-occurring speech. This work promotes engaging remote collaboration among humans through a robot intermediary.

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Design of Engineering Education System Using Long-Distance-Controlled Robots

Cited by 2 publications

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Design of a Long-Distance-Controlled Robot System for Distance Education

Design of a Long-Distance-Controlled Robot System for Distance Education

Telerobotic Pointing Gestures Shape Human Spatial Cognition

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