Give children toy robots to educate and/or neuroeducate: The example of PEKOPPA in neurotypical and atypical children aged 6 years

Irini Giannopulu; Tomio Watanabe

Give children toy robots to educate and/or neuroeducate: The example of PEKOPPA in neurotypical and atypical children aged 6 years

Irini Giannopulu, Tomio Watanabe

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Abstract

Using an InterActor toy robot named PEKOPPA in a “speaker-listener” situation, we have compared the verbal and the emotional expressions of neurotypical and autistic children aged 6 to 7 years. The speaker was always a child (neurotypical or autistic); the listener was a human or the toy robot which reacts to speech expression by nodding only.The results appear to indicate that minimalistic artificial environments could be considered as the root of neuronal organization and reorganization with the potential to improve brain activity. They support the embrainment of cognitive verbal and nonverbal emotional information processing.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	International workshop and Summer School on Medical and Service Robotics : MES-ROB - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Duration: 10 Jul 2014 → 12 Jul 2014

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Conference	International workshop and Summer School on Medical and Service Robotics
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Lausanne
Period	10/07/14 → 12/07/14

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Giannopulu, I & Watanabe, T 2014, 'Give children toy robots to educate and/or neuroeducate: The example of PEKOPPA in neurotypical and atypical children aged 6 years', International workshop and Summer School on Medical and Service Robotics , Lausanne, Switzerland, 10/07/14 - 12/07/14. <https://documents.epfl.ch/users/e/ea/eabdi/dropbox/MESROB%20revised/Giannopulu_Irini.pdf>

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Give children toy robots to educate and/or neuroeducate: The example of PEKOPPA in neurotypical and atypical children aged 6 years

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