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A Gesture-Based Interaction Approach for Manipulating Augmented Objects Using Leap Motion
López Herrera, Gustavo; Quesada Quirós, Luis; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2015-11)Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing are carrying the world to a reality where almost every object interacts with the environment, either via sensors or actuators, and users must learn how to interact with such ... -
A mobile application that allows children in the early childhood to program robots
Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; López Herrera, Gustavo; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2016)Children born in the Information Age are digital natives; this characteristic should be exploited to improve the learning process through the use of technology. This paper addresses the design, construction, and evaluation ... -
A Virtual Repository of Learning Objects to Support Literacy of SEN Children
Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto; Jadán Guerrero, Janio (2015-01)Literacy development is an essential process for special education needs children. Otherwise, they will have additional difficulties in their daily life activities and hence their social inclusion. It is a big challenge ... -
Alexa vs. Siri vs. Cortana vs. Google Assistant: A Comparison of Speech-Based Natural User Interfaces
López Herrera, Gustavo; Quesada Quirós, Luis; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2017-07-17)Natural User Interfaces (NUI) are supposed to be used by humans in a very logic way. However, the run to deploy Speech-based NUIs by the industry has had a large impact on the naturality of such interfaces. This paper ... -
Alternative and augmentative communication for people with disabilities and language problems: an eye gaze tracking approach
Arias Soto, Emmanuel; López Herrera, Gustavo; Quesada Quirós, Luis; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2016)Alternative and augmentative communications encapsulates the use of technology to provide communication means for people with some sort of disability. In this paper, we present a prototype that provides both pictographic ... -
Automatic recognition of the American sign language fingerspelling alphabet to assist people living with speech or hearing impairments
Quesada Quirós, Luis; López Herrera, Gustavo; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2017-03-22)Sign languages are natural languages used mostly by deaf and hard of hearing people. Different development opportunities for people with these disabilities are limited because of communication problems. The advances in ... -
Comparing written and voice captured responses of the user experience questionnaire (UEQ)
Mata Serrano, Jean Carlo; Díaz Oreiro, Ignacio; López Herrera, Gustavo; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2022-03)Standardized questionnaires are widely used instruments to evaluate UX and their capture mechanism has been implemented in written form, either on paper or in digital format. This study aims to determine if the UX evaluations ... -
Conversational design patterns for a UX evaluation instrument implemented by voice
Díaz Oreiro, Ignacio; López Herrera, Gustavo; Quesada Quirós, Luis; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2022-03)In recent years there has been an increase of voice interfaces, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence and the expansion of commercial devices that use them, such as smart assistants present on phones or smart ... -
Creación de una herramienta colaborativa para el aprendizaje de la programación que incentive la colaboración en niños con edades comprendidas entre 4 y 6 años
Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana (2016-07-31)La presente investigación se enfoca en la creación de una herramienta colaborativa para el aprendizaje de la programación, llamada TITIBOTS Colab, que incentiva la colaboración en niños de la primera infancia, con edades ... -
Creating a protocol for collaborative mobile applications for kids between 4 and 6 years old
Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; García, Franklin; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2015)One of the basic requirements in education is to prepare students for participation in an information society in which knowledge will be the most important resource for development. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning ... -
Creating TUIs Using RFID Sensors—A Case Study Based on the Literacy Process of Children with Down Syndrome
Jadán Guerrero, Janio; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto; López Herrera, Gustavo; Cáliz Ramos, Doris; Bravo Rodríguez, José (2015)Teaching children with intellectual disabilities is a big challenge for most parents and educators. Special education teachers use learning strategies to develop and enhance motivation for complex learning tasks. Literacy ... -
Designing Tools that Allows Children in the Early Childhood to Program Robots
Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; López Herrera, Gustavo; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2017)This paper describes the design and evaluation process of two mobile programming assistance tools that allow children in the early childhood to develop programs and execute them using robots. The tools are called TITIBOTS ... -
Development and Evaluation of Augmented Object Prototypes for Notifications in Collaborative Writing Environments
Brenes Carranza, José Antonio; López Herrera, Gustavo; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2016)In Ubiquitous Computing, augmented objects refer to those elements of the real world which have been provided with computational capabilities to meet a specific need. Meanwhile, Collaborative Writing Environments (CWE) ... -
Evaluating the Nao Robot in the Role of Personal Assistant: The Effect of Gender in Robot Performance Evaluation
Vega Vega, Adrián; Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto; López Herrera, Gustavo (2019-11-20)By using techniques such as the Wizard of Oz (WoZ) and video capture, this paper evaluated the performance of the Nao Robot in the role of a personal assistant, which was valuated alongside the impact of the assigned gender ... -
Exploratory Analysis of Research Publications on Robotics in Costa Rica Main Public Universities
Chaverri Ruiz, Juan Pablo; Vega Vega, Adrián; Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; Mora Jiménez, Ariel; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2021)The article presents the main robotic trends linked to the publications of the institutional repositories of the five main Costa Rican public universities: Tecnológico de Costa Rica, University of Costa Rica, National ... -
Improving deaf people accessibility and communication through automatic sign language recognition using novel technologies
Quesada Quirós, Luis; López Herrera, Gustavo; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2016)Communication is a key for human development. Nevertheless, deaf people have difficulty interacting with hearing and hard of hearing people. On the other hand, new technology allows gesture recognition. This work aims ... -
Interfaces conversacionales por voz como medio de captura para cuestionarios estandarizados de evaluación de experiencia de usuario
Díaz Oreiro, Ignacio (2023-07-13)Los cuestionarios estandarizados se encuentran entre los instrumentos más utilizados para evaluar la experiencia de usuario. Estos instrumentos, sin embargo, podrían presentar algunos inconvenientes propios de los cuestionarios ... -
Marco de referencia conceptual para la construcción de sistemas de entrega de notificaciones a través de dispositivos inteligentes en el contexto de trabajo colaborativo apoyado por computadora
López Herrera, Gustavo (2019)La cantidad de información disponible para una persona en un momento determinado está creciendo desproporcionadamente. Por otro lado, los dispositivos inteligentes son cada vez más y más populares. Para evitar que la ... -
MODEBOTS: Environment for Programming Robots for Children Between the Ages of 4 and 6
Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto (2015-08)Learning how to program in early age helps children to develop some capabilities as logical thinking, problem solving, and creativity. Incorporating robotics in programming children can help to learn in a concrete and funny ... -
NAO as a Copresenter in a Robotics Workshop - Participant’s Feedback on the Engagement Level Achieved with a Robot in the Classroom
Hernández Cedeño, Joseiby; Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana; Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto; Vega Vega, Adrián (2019)Robotics, combined with computer science and human-centered studies, can have a substantial impact in areas such as education and innovation. Robots have proven to be a good tool to gain and maintain users’ involvement in ...