Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture

V. Vouloutsi; M. Blancas; R. Zucca; P. Omedas; Dennis Reidsma; Daniel Patrick Davison; Vasiliki Charisi; Frances M. Wijnen; Jan van der Meij; Vanessa Evers; D. Cameron; S. Fernando; R. Moore; T. Prescott; D. Mazzei; M. Pieroni; L. Cominelli; R. Garofalo; D. De Rossi; P. Verschure

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Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture

V. Vouloutsi, M. Blancas, R. Zucca, P. Omedas, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Patrick Davison, Vasiliki Charisi, Frances M. Wijnen, Jan van der Meij, Vanessa Evers, D. Cameron, S. Fernando, R. Moore, T. Prescott, D. Mazzei, M. Pieroni, L. Cominelli, R. Garofalo, D. De Rossi, P. Verschure

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Robots are gradually but steadily being introduced in our daily lives. A paramount application is that of education, where robots can assume the role of a tutor, a peer or simply a tool to help learners in a specific knowledge domain. Such endeavor posits specific challenges: affective social behavior, proper modelling of the learner’s progress, discrimination of the learner’s utterances, expressions and mental states, which, in turn, require an integrated architecture combining perception, cognition and action. In this paper we present an attempt to improve the current state of robots in the educational domain by introducing the EASEL EU project. Specifically, we introduce the EASEL’s unified robot architecture, an innovative Synthetic Tutor Assistant (STA) whose goal is to interactively guide learners in a science-based learning paradigm, allowing us to achieve such rich multimodal interactions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
Subtitle of host publication	5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings
Editors	N.F. Lepora, A. Mura, M. Mangan, P.F.M.J. Verschure, M. Desmulliez, T.J. Prescott
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	353-364
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-42416-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_32
Publication status	Published - Jul 2016
Event	5th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Living Machines - Switzerland Duration: 1 Jul 2016 → …

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Volume	9793
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	5th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK
City	Switzerland
Period	1/07/16 → …

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22/4 OA procedure
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/341196
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/611971

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Vouloutsi, V., Blancas, M., Zucca, R., Omedas, P., Reidsma, D., Davison, D. P., Charisi, V., Wijnen, F. M., van der Meij, J., Evers, V., Cameron, D., Fernando, S., Moore, R., Prescott, T., Mazzei, D., Pieroni, M., Cominelli, L., Garofalo, R., De Rossi, D., & Verschure, P. (2016). Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture. In N. F. Lepora, A. Mura, M. Mangan, P. F. M. J. Verschure, M. Desmulliez, & T. J. Prescott (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings (pp. 353-364). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9793). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_32

Vouloutsi, V. ; Blancas, M. ; Zucca, R. et al. / Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant : The EASEL Project and its Architecture. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. editor / N.F. Lepora ; A. Mura ; M. Mangan ; P.F.M.J. Verschure ; M. Desmulliez ; T.J. Prescott. Switzerland : Springer, 2016. pp. 353-364 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture. / Vouloutsi, V.; Blancas, M.; Zucca, R. et al.
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. ed. / N.F. Lepora; A. Mura; M. Mangan; P.F.M.J. Verschure; M. Desmulliez; T.J. Prescott. Switzerland: Springer, 2016. p. 353-364 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9793).

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Vouloutsi V, Blancas M, Zucca R, Omedas P, Reidsma D , Davison DP et al. Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture. In Lepora NF, Mura A, Mangan M, Verschure PFMJ, Desmulliez M, Prescott TJ, editors, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. Switzerland: Springer. 2016. p. 353-364. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_32

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