Publications by Ayberk Özgür

Smart Toys plus plus : Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning

Under the umbrella of smart toys, a myriad of interactive systems have addressed a variety of scenarios considering entertainment, education, sustainability, social and environmental learning through play. Tangibles and small toy robots prevail; but intera ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Detecting Compensatory Motions and Providing Informative Feedback During a Tangible Robot Assisted Game for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Hala Khodr, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Barbara Bruno

Gamified rehabilitation tackles the problem of keeping patients engaged in, and motivated to do physical rehabilitation to improve its efficacy. However, with respect to standard rehabilitation, patients are freer to move about and may compensate their mot ...

IEEE2021

Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Barbara Bruno

A key element for the success of any game is its ability to produce a different experience at each round, thus keeping the player engagement high. This is particularly important for those games that also have a serious objective, such as gamified rehabilit ...

2020

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Barbara Bruno

A large body of research suggests that robots could indeed be useful for supporting children in learning handwriting. However, few studies have investigated the role and use of tangible robots in teaching handwriting to children with attention and/or visuo ...

2020

Gamified Motor Training With Tangible Robots in Older Adults: A Feasibility Study and Comparison With the Young

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Background: An increasing lifespan and the resulting change in our expectations of later life stages are dependent on a good health state. This emphasizes the importance of the development of strategies to further strengthen healthy aging. One important as ...

2020

Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Tangible Robot-Assisted Handwriting Activity for Special Education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi, Barbara Bruno

In this article we investigate the role of interactive haptic-enabled tangible robots in supporting the learning of cursive letter writing for children with attention and visuomotor coordination issues. We focus on the two principal aspects of handwriting ...

2020

Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

Robots bring a new potential for embodied learning in classrooms. With our project, we aim to ease the task for teachers and to show the worth of tangible manipulation of robots in educational contexts. In this article, we present the design and the evalua ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

PREC 2019: Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching

Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Exercising is strongly recommended for prevention and treatment of pathologies with high prevalence such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that insufficient physical activity is one of the leading ...

IEEE2019

TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Hala Khodr, Alex The Duy Tran

While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the us ...

ACM2019

Magnet-assisted ball drive

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The present invention concerns a magnet-assisted ball drive. The drive comprises a ball and a drive element in contact with the ball. The drive element is arranged to be rotated around its axis of rotation to drive the ball. The ball and the drive element ...

2019

Designing Configurable Arm Rehabilitation Games: How Do Different Game Elements Affect User Motion Trajectories?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

For successful rehabilitation of a patient after a stroke or traumatic brain injury, it is crucial that rehabilitation activities are motivating, provide feedback and have a high rate of repetitions. Advancements in recent technologies provide solutions to ...

IEEE2019

Towards an Adaptive Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Louis Pierre Faucon, Pablo Maceira Elvira, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior

A key feature of a successful game is its ability to provide the player with an adequate level of challenge. However, the objective of difficulty adaptation in serious games is not only to maintain the player’s motivation by challenging, but also to ensure ...

2019

Cellulo: Tangible Haptic Swarm Robots for Learning

Ayberk Özgür

Robots are steadily becoming one of the significant 21st century learning technologies that aim to improve education within both formal and informal environments. Such robots, called Robots for Learning, have so far been utilized as constructionist tools o ...

EPFL2018

Iterative Design of an Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel

2018

Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Ayberk Özgür, Khalil Mrini, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi

In this paper, we present a robotic approach to improve the teaching of handwriting using the tangible, haptic-enabled and classroom-friendly Cellulo robots. Our efforts presented here are in line with the philosophy of the Cellulo platform: we aim to crea ...

ACM2018

Declarative Physicomimetics for Tangible Swarm Application Development

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

2018

Windfield: Learning Wind Meteorology with Handheld Haptic Robots

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

This article presents a learning activity and its user study involving the Cellulo platform, a novel versatile robotic tool designed for education. In order to show the potential of Cellulo in the classroom as part of standard curricular activities, we des ...

ACM2017

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Ayberk Özgür, Manon Aline Briod, Maria Maria Beltran Reyes, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Léa Marie Pereyre

In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by designing them to be pe ...

ACM2017

Haptic-Enabled Handheld Mobile Robots: Design and Analysis

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The Cellulo robots are small tangible robots that are designed to represent virtual interactive point-like objects that reside on a plane within carefully designed learning activities. In the context of these activities, our robots not only display autonom ...

ACM2017

Windfield: Demonstrating Wind Meteorology with Handheld Haptic Robots

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

One of the main issues with the acceptance of robotic tools in schools is the extracurricular aspect of the learning activities using these robots. In the Cellulo project, we developed a novel robotic platform that aims to provide a ubiquitous, versatile a ...

ACM2017