TY - GEN
T1 - Tale of a robot
T2 - 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2011
AU - Kose, Hatice
AU - Yorganci, Rabia
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - There is an on-going study which aims to assist in teaching Sign Language (SL) to hearing impaired children by means of non-verbal communication and imitation based interaction games between a humanoid robot and the child. In this study, the robot will be able to express a word in SL among a set of chosen words using hand movements, body and face gestures. Having comprehended the word, the child will give relevant feedback to the robot. In the current study, we propose an interactive story telling game between a NAO H25 humanoid robot and preschool children based on Turkish Sign Language (TSL). Since most of the children do not know how to read and write, and they are not familiar with sign language, we prepared a short story including specially selected words which is performed by the robot verbally and with sign language as well. The children are expected to give feedback to the robot with matching colour flashcards when it implements a word in sign language. The robotic event covered 106 preschool children. The aim is to evaluate the children's sign language learning ability from a robot, and comparison of these results with the results of video based studies.
AB - There is an on-going study which aims to assist in teaching Sign Language (SL) to hearing impaired children by means of non-verbal communication and imitation based interaction games between a humanoid robot and the child. In this study, the robot will be able to express a word in SL among a set of chosen words using hand movements, body and face gestures. Having comprehended the word, the child will give relevant feedback to the robot. In the current study, we propose an interactive story telling game between a NAO H25 humanoid robot and preschool children based on Turkish Sign Language (TSL). Since most of the children do not know how to read and write, and they are not familiar with sign language, we prepared a short story including specially selected words which is performed by the robot verbally and with sign language as well. The children are expected to give feedback to the robot with matching colour flashcards when it implements a word in sign language. The robotic event covered 106 preschool children. The aim is to evaluate the children's sign language learning ability from a robot, and comparison of these results with the results of video based studies.
KW - Humanoid Robots
KW - Interaction games
KW - Non-verbal communication
KW - Sign Language
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856345307&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100846
DO - 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100846
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856345307
SN - 9781612848679
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 105
EP - 111
BT - 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2011
Y2 - 26 October 2011 through 28 October 2011
ER -