Publications by Shruti Chandra

Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges

Research on child-agent interaction is rapidly expanding. It is, therefore, necessary to converge our collective efforts to broaden our understanding and perspectives of how virtual agents, affect and potentially improve the well-being of children. "Childr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Children Teach Handwriting to a Social Robot with Different Learning Competencies

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

As robots are entering into educational fields to enhance children's learning, it becomes relevant to explore different methods of learning in the area of child-robot interaction. In this article, we present an autonomous educational system incorporating a ...

SPRINGER2020

Learning How to Write with a Social Robot

Shruti Chandra

Learning handwriting is one of the main occupations for children in primary education. It is a complex skill that has been associated with children’s learning and development. Poor handwriting skills affect children negatively concerning their academic per ...

EPFL2019

Walk the Talk! Exploring (Mis)Alignment of Words and Deeds by Robotic Teammates in a Public Goods Game

Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

This paper explores how robotic teammates can enhance and promote cooperation in collaborative settings. It presents a user study in which participants engaged with two fully autonomous robotic partners to play a game together, named "For The Record", a va ...

IEEE2019

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering children's learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot that was designed to enhance children's handwriting skills. Exploiting the benefi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Affect of Robot’s Competencies on Children’s Perception

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

The focus of the research described in this paper is to explore children’s perception of a social robot’s learning abilities and behavior in an educational context. With this purpose, we conducted a long-term study with children in a school by adopting the ...

2017

Classification of Children's Handwriting Errors for the Design of an Educational Co-writer Robotic Peer

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of handwriting errors exhibited by children as a way to build adequate strategies for integration with a co-writing peer. The exploration includes the collection of letters written by children in an initial study, which ...

2017

Developing Learning Scenarios to Foster Children's Handwriting Skills with the Help of Social Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

Social robots are being used to create better educationalscenarios, boosting children’s motivation and engagement.The focus of the research is to explore new ways to supportchildren in acquisition of their handwriting skills with thehelp of a social robot. ...

2017

Children’s Peer Assessment and Self-disclosure in the Presence of an Educational Robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva, Séverin Lemaignan

Research in education has long established how children mutually influence and support each other's learning trajectories, eventually leading to the development and widespread use of learning methods based on peer activities. In order to explore children's ...

2016

Can a Child Feel Responsible for Another in the Presence of a Robot in a Collaborative Learning Activity?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva, Séverin Lemaignan

In order to explore the impact of integrating a robot as a facilitator in a collaborative activity, we examined interpersonal distancing of children both with a human adult and a robot facilitator. Our scenario involves two children performing a collaborat ...

2015