Research Informed Teaching - Pepper the Robot attends Lectures

Bernadette Byrne; Alessandra Rossi; Martina Doolan

Abstract

For the past 15 years, the University of Hertfordshire’s Adaptive Systems Research Group has focused its work on artificial life and rehabilitation and assistive robotics, with expertise in neurorehabilitation robots, robot-assisted play, and socially assistive robots. As part of the University’s strategic plan it would like to encourage students to develop an understanding of the history and role of research in computer science. The University would like to support a research-rich environment that informs our teaching.

In all our computer science courses at the University we teach a module called Contemporary Issues in Information Technology. Within this module we have included a lecture on “The Rise of the Robots”. We invite one of our resident robots, Pepper to take part in the lecture. Pepper can talk to the students, answer questions about the module and even invite them to dance. In this paper we will describe our experiences of using Pepper in lectures and how we have used this as a way to engage students in the research process and encourage research skills.

Original language	English
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2017
Event	9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 5 Jul 2017 Conference number: 9 https://iated.org/edulearn/

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Abbreviated title	EDULEARN2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	3/07/17 → 5/07/17
Internet address	https://iated.org/edulearn/

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Research Informed Teaching
Socially Assistive Robots

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