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Evaluating Virtual and Local Pepper Presence in the Role of Communicator Interacting with Another Human Presenter at a Vocational Fair of Computer Sciences
(2022-06-16)
This paper proposes the evaluation of the local and remote interaction of a Pepper Robot and a human presenter answering questions from high-school students at the Universidad de Costa Rica’s vocational fair. The interactions ...
Mathematics and technological integration in the Brazilian basic education as motivation to STEM
(2015-10)
This article aims to describe actions that contemplate the use of technological resources in mathematics classes in Brazilian basic education. It is presented a case study on a class of the 5th year elementary school from ...
Evaluating the Nao Robot in the Role of Personal Assistant: The Effect of Gender in Robot Performance Evaluation
(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 ...
Lineamientos para crear herramientas que permitan a los niños de preescolar programar robots
(2021)
Al diseñar una aplicación orientada a niños, se enfrenta un importante reto, ya que los niños son una población con habilidades, preferencias y necesidades diferentes al “usuario medio”, y estas van cambiando conforme el ...
User Experience in Communication and Collaboration Platforms: A Comparative Study Including Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom
(2022-03)
Due to the measures imposed to prevent the spread of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic, how education and work communications are carried have changed. An increase in video conferencing and meeting applications is ...
Exploratory Analysis of Research Publications on Robotics in Costa Rica Main Public Universities
(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 ...
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
(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 ...
NAO as a Copresenter in a Robotics Workshop - Participant’s Feedback on the Engagement Level Achieved with a Robot in the Classroom
(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 ...
Social Robotics Guidelines
(2019-08-19)
Human interactions are affected by society's norms and cultural criteria. Individuals expect certain behaviors from other people, who have an obligation to act according to the expected behavior in the cultural and social ...
Creating a protocol for collaborative mobile applications for kids between 4 and 6 years old
(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 ...