L2TOR (pronounced ‘el tutor’) is a research project that aims to design a tutor robot that can be used to support teaching preschool children a second language.
We are proud to announce that today Dr. Jan de Wit was awarded Cum Laude for his dissertation 'I like the way you move: Robots that gesture, and their potential as second language tutors for children' as part of @L2Tor#TiU@jmsdewit
Robots can support teachers in individual second language lessons, where gestures increase children's engagement and promote learning. They can relieve the pressure on overloaded classrooms. Jan de Wit @jmsdewit defends this research for his PhD on Jan 28. tilburguniversity.edu/curren…
Our @SciRobotics paper just published. Online interactive machine learning for social robots, in a large, real-world domain (where we also learn the social policy!) Emmanuel's PhD work, with @skadge and @PEBaxter. @IDLabResearch@ugent
A #robot quickly learned to give advice and encouragement to young students learning about the food web, thanks to a new interactive #machinelearning system created by scientists from @PlymUni, @ugent. fcld.ly/arvl0cn
Dutch newspaper @volkskrant has pubished a nice feature on Rianne van den Berghe's PhD thesis feature our long-term evaluation study. volkskrant.nl/ts-be41660f
Here's a link to Dr. Rianne van den Berghe's PhD thesis titled 'Social robots as second-language tutors for young children: Challenges and opportunities'. Enjoy reading. bit.ly/2XpyYYA
Today, L2TOR – The Movie was shown as a 3 minute feature for about 400 participants of the HRI conference in South Korea. Here is a link to the full version. #HRI2019youtu.be/IS8CbzJZX4k