Publications de Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Importance de l’écriture : des outils de dépistage et de rééducation

Elsevier BV2025

Method of analysing handwritten items

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The present invention according to one embodiment concerns a computer-implemented method of analysing handwritten characters produced by a user. The method comprises: collecting (107) handwritten characters of the user, the user being part of a given user ...

2021

The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

Do handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our measures of handwriting skills intrinsically bound to one alphabet or will a child who faces handwriting difficulties in one scri ...

2021

“It Is Not the Robot Who Learns, It Is Me.” Treating Severe Dysgraphia Using Child–Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, David Cohen

Writing disorders are frequent and impairing. However, social robots may help to improve children's motivation and to propose enjoyable and tailored activities. Here, we have used the Co-writer scenario in which a child is asked to teach a robot how to wri ...

2021

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

A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching literacy, addressing a rare combination of research hypotheses and technical ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Cognitive Learning with a Robot: The Case of Script Acquisition

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

This research is situated in a specialized context offering a rarely occurring opportunity for research questions and technical objectives about language acquisition. The Kazakh language transition from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan raises chall ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Analysis and Remediation of Handwriting difficulties

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Even with correct training, up to 25% of children never master handwriting like their peers. While research shows a correlation between handwriting difficulties and school failure, these difficulties can also impact children in their self esteem and behavi ...

EPFL2020

Learning (Good Handwriting In Greek) By Teaching (A Humanoid Robot)

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thanasis Hadzilacos

We report on a follow-up study of the Co-Writer project at EPFL [1]; we confirm their findings, extend the applicability to another language with a different alphabet (Greek) and go into an in-depth qualitative study of the child-robot relationship. The co ...

IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT2020

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

Extending the Spectrum of Dysgraphia: A Data Driven Strategy to Estimate Handwriting Quality

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Mateo Chapatte

This paper proposes new ways to assess handwriting, a critical skill in any child’s school journey. Traditionally, a pen and paper test called the BHK test (Concise Evaluation Scale for Children’s Handwriting) is used to assess children’s handwriting in Fr ...

Nature Research2020

Reply: Limitations in the creation of an automatic diagnosis tool for dysgraphia

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Lukasz Kidzinski, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thomas Dany Sylvain Gargot, David Cohen

Springer2019

Bridging Multilevel Time Scales in HRI

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Kshitij Sharma, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

In this article, we present a multi-level time scales framework for the analysis of human-robot interaction (HRI). Such a framework allows HRI scientists to model the inter-relation between measures and factors of an experiment. Our final goal with the int ...

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

Iterative Classroom Teaching

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Volkan Cevher, Louis Pierre Faucon, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Kamalaruban Parameswaran

We consider the machine teaching problem in a classroom-like setting wherein the teacher has to deliver the same examples to a diverse group of students. Their diversity stems from differences in their initial internal states as well as their learning rate ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2019

CoWriting Kazakh: Transitioning to a New Latin Script using Social Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the transition from Cyrillic towards Latin alphabet raises challenges to teach the whole population in writing the new script. This paper presents a CoWriting Kazakh system that aims to implement an autonomous behavior of a s ...

IEEE2019

Learning By Collaborative Teaching : An Engaging Multi-Party CoWriter Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Jauwairia Nasir

This paper presents the design of a novel and engaging collaborative learning activity for handwriting where a group of participants simultaneously tutor a Nao robot. This activity was intended to take advantage of both collaborative learning and the learn ...

2019

Method of handwritten character recognition confirmation

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The present invention concerns a method for an artificial neural network to confirm the recognition of handwritten characters produced by a user. The method comprising: training (21) the artificial neural network with a training data set comprising a first ...

2019

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

Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Lukasz Kidzinski, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thomas Dany Sylvain Gargot, David Cohen

The academic and behavioral progress of children is associated with the timely development of reading and writing skills. Dysgraphia, characterized as a handwriting learning disability, is usually associated with dyslexia, developmental coordination disord ...

2018