Abstract—This essay investigates the situation of young researchers in the HRI community. I argue that we need to have a more child friendly environment to encourage young staff ...
We introduce mixed physical and digital authoring environments for children, which invite them to create stories with enriched drawings that are programmed to control robotic char...
Kimiko Ryokai, Michael Jongseon Lee, Jonathan Mica...
Many researchers have developed many programming environments for children. Typically each of these environments contains its own programming notation ranging from computer code t...
— This article presents the design of Iromec, a modular robot companion tailored towards engaging in social exchanges with children with different disabilities with the aim to em...
We present progress with roBlocks, a reconfigurable modular robotic system for education. Children snap together small, magnetic, heterogeneous modules to create larger, more comp...