TY - GEN
T1 - An Educational, Semi-autonomous Telepresence Robot Called Sally
AU - Caro-Via, Selene
AU - Garangou-Culebras, Albert
AU - Falcó-Olmo, Alex
AU - Parés-Morlans, Carlota
AU - Ros, Raquel
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by La Salle-Ramon Llull University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Approaching technologies to young users has been broadly tackled in the past years through different methods. From well-known competitions, to commercial kits, students are quickly grasping technology at early stages of life. At La Salle-URL university we have been developing robotics workshops for the past 8 years. Despite the efforts on constantly improving these workshops, we have reached a point where a radical change is required. There is an urgent need to update our workshops programme to offer more challenging content and new methodologies addressing the current students’ demands on the one hand. On the other, we also need workshops that integrate in an effective way the inclusion of both on-line and on-site students without being detrimental to either group. In this paper, we propose a new academic methodology for the robotics workshops, along with additional tools. In this sense, we present our robot Sally, a semi-autonomous telepresence robot, that will support the proposed methodology. Students will be introduced to robotic capabilities that are currently being used in research and industry; 3D design; multiple sensors and actuators programming and applications for a voice assistant, among other topics.
AB - Approaching technologies to young users has been broadly tackled in the past years through different methods. From well-known competitions, to commercial kits, students are quickly grasping technology at early stages of life. At La Salle-URL university we have been developing robotics workshops for the past 8 years. Despite the efforts on constantly improving these workshops, we have reached a point where a radical change is required. There is an urgent need to update our workshops programme to offer more challenging content and new methodologies addressing the current students’ demands on the one hand. On the other, we also need workshops that integrate in an effective way the inclusion of both on-line and on-site students without being detrimental to either group. In this paper, we propose a new academic methodology for the robotics workshops, along with additional tools. In this sense, we present our robot Sally, a semi-autonomous telepresence robot, that will support the proposed methodology. Students will be introduced to robotic capabilities that are currently being used in research and industry; 3D design; multiple sensors and actuators programming and applications for a voice assistant, among other topics.
KW - Educational robotics
KW - Learning methodologies
KW - Telepresence robot
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133196300&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05675-8_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05675-8_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85133196300
SN - 9783031056741
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 142
EP - 157
BT - Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Technological Environments - 9th International Conference, LCT 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Zaphiris, Panayiotis
A2 - Ioannou, Andri
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 9th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -