In our laboratory our student assistants and PhD students develop applications for the humanoid robots 🤖 Pepper and Nao.
These programs are tested with students and then integrated and used in higher education. 💬
We currently have 10 completed applications and some libraries with our own animations or code, that we would like to share with you.
We hope to be able to build up or be part of a broader, well-connected community, which works with these and other social robots
as teaching and learning assistants.
Here you can find out more about the BHT KOM-LAB. 😃
We are working with Nao 6 and the Choregraphe build 2.8.6.23.
Our Pepper has the robot version 1.8 .
Nao says (like the popular game Simon says) is a game in which Nao gives instructions to the players to do or not to do something. Then the robot performs the corresponding action and the players have to imitate it. The program currently supports 10 different animations. (It was designed for the "long night of science" in berlin, 2022)
Empathy mapping is a method to develop better user experience (UX) design`s. Nao explains to the students what the topic of today's exercise is and then leads them through an example of empathy mapping.
Easy breathing is a simple breathing exercise, which is available in various lengths. NAO helps to maintain an even breathing rhythm with the support of a sound. The sound signals when to breathe in and when to breathe out. It will help to regain focus and to relax.
The 4-7-8 breathing exercise is a guided breathing meditation, which helps with anxiety and stress. NAO guides the participant through multiple cycles, in which you breathe in, hold your breath and breathe out while assisting with verbal and visual support.
An exercise to loosen up the lesson. The students spread out in the room and play rock, paper, scissors against each other to rise in rank. If you want, you can play against NAO.
Planning Poker is an agile method for estimating the time required for specific parts of the project. NAO briefly explains to the participants how planning poker works and then runs them through a test scenario.
In the scenario "daily scrum - Nao as scrum master", NAO explains to the participants how a daily scrum works and what needs to be considered at such a meeting. Then the group goes through a Daily Scrum meeting together with NAO.
Empathy mapping is a method to develop better user experience (UX) design`s. Pepper explains to the students what the topic of today's exercise is and then leads them through an example of empathy mapping
The Ball-Point-Game is a warm-up game to get to know agile working.
Presentation Evaluation by Pepper
In this project, the Pepper robot serves as both a presentation moderator and an evaluator. Pepper delivers verbal instructions to guide the presenter and the audience in accordance with the predefined scenario. Pepper's capabilities extend to recording the presenter's speech and capturing the audience's reactions, including measures of applause, laughter, and whistle intensity in decibels (dB).
Yoga with NAO is a short application in which NAO guides the users through three easy Asanas (Yoga stances). It’s useful for longer breaks during lessons with smaller groups.
We also try to share our research results through papers. If you are particularly interested
in a topic, you may find a more detailed document about it below. Also check out our website,
where the publications are always up to date.
- Designing and programming game-based learning with humanoid robots: A case study of the multimodal "Make or Do" English grammar game with the Pepper robot. Read on ResearchGate
- A breathing exercise with the humanoid robot NAO designed to reduce student stress during class: results from a pilot study with students in higher education. Read on ResearchGate
- NAO Robot as Scrum Master: Results from a scenario-based study on building rapport with a humanoid robot in hybrid higher education settings. Read on ResearchGate
- Humanoid robots in higher education: An exploratory study on applying the NAO robot as an educational technology in business studies in hybrid settings. Read on ResearchGate
- Sound Recognition with a Humanoid Robot for a Quiz Game in an Educational Environment Read on ResearchGate
- Learning Agile Estimation in Diverse Student Teams by Playing Planning Poker with the Humanoid Robot NAO. Results from Two Pilot Studies in Higher Education Read on ResearchGate
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