Application of a Learning-Companion Robot in Learning Environments
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Su, Mu-Chun; Huang, De-Yuan; Lin, Shih-Chieh; Hsieh, Yi-Zeng; Chen, Gwo-Dong
- Source
- 2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning Digital Games and Intelligent Toys Based Education, 2008 Second IEEE International Conference on. :203-204 Nov, 2008
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Service robots
Intelligent robots
Educational robots
Computerized monitoring
Robotic assembly
Robot sensing systems
Application software
Robot vision systems
Cameras
Signal detection
- Language
In this paper, a learning-companion robot based on a Pleo (a dinosaur-robot) is introduced. The learning-companion robot is equipped with a low-cost Web camera, a computer, and an attention monitoring algorithm so that it can not only monitor a learner’s attention status but also detect whether the learner is too close to a computer screen during an on-line learning activity. The motivation of the development of the learning-companion robot is to alleviate parents’ supervision burdens when they can not personally accompany their children to engage in some learning activities or playing computer games.