Publications de Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Quantitative analysis of the correlation between body posture quality assessment scores and handwriting quality measures

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Various technological applications for body posture correction have been proposed in order to improve handwriting or facilitate its learning for children, under the assumption that a better posture promotes better handwriting. However, very little research ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

The Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Promote Correct Handwriting Posture for Children

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Persuasive social robots have the ability to influence human behaviour through social interaction, which makes them a valuable technological solution for all applications aiming to support a person's behaviour change. The recently proposed Child-Robot Rela ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

SketchAI: A "Sketch-First" Approach to Incorporating Generative AI into Fashion Design

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Generative AI technologies are increasingly being incorporated into creativity support tools. However, most generative AI tools rely on text-based prompting, requiring users to translate visual ideas into linguistic descriptions. This approach is misaligne ...

ACM2025

Editorial: Advances in robots for learning

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

we were captivated by the opportunities and challenges of integrating robots into education, and collectively, we shared a deep enthusiasm for their potential to revolutionize social robotics in meaningful ways. ...

2025

Exploring and Evaluating the Impacts of Rhythm Training on Reading through Interaction Design

Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in education, and it involves mastering various sub-skills, such as decoding tokens and acquiring phonological awareness. Research indicates that practising music in an educational setting can enhance ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Co-designing a Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Regulate Children's Handwriting Posture

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Persuasive social robots employ their social influence to modulate children's behaviours in child-robot interaction. In this work, we introduce the Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention (CRNI) model, leveraging the passive role of social robots and chil ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Teachers, Take Care of the Essential. the Rest Is Story: Using LLM and Social Robots for Content Approaching by Storytelling

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Social robots are widely used for educational activities, especially to attract children's attention. As a side effect, pupils' excitement can suppress their focus on the tutors and the content being approached. A potential solution to tackle this issue is ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

WriteUpRight: Regulating Children’s Handwriting Body Posture by Unobstrusively Error Amplification via Slow Visual Stimuli on Tablets

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Maintaining a proper body posture during interactions with educational tablet applications is crucial for children's physical well-being and task performance, especially considering digital tablet's increasingly pervasive use in classrooms. In this work we ...

2024

Multiuser design of an architecture for social robots in education: teachers, students, and researchers perspectives

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Research on social assistive robots in education faces many challenges that extend beyond technical issues. On one hand, hardware and software limitations, such as algorithm accuracy in real-world applications, render this approach difficult for daily use. ...

2024

The iReCheck project: using tablets and robots for personalised handwriting practice

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, David Cohen, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Handwriting is an important skill in children development as well as in education that take years to be mastered. While keyboards and similar technological devices increasingly become more popular, new tools and engaging approaches are also required to kee ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Teacher's Perception on Social Robots to Promote the Integration of Children with Migration Background

Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

This paper describes the first steps of an ongoing participatory design with teachers from Switzerland to co-create Human-Robot Interaction setups for integrating children with migration history. The herein presented phase had two main goals: (i) initially ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Unobtrusively Regulating Children’s Posture via Slow Visual Stimuli on Tablets

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Children’s retention of a proper body posture while interacting with educational tablet applications is important for both their physical health and task performance. In this work, we propose a new approach to unobtrusively induce postural changes in child ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Multimodal, Interactive Interfaces for Education

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of technology and innovative pedagogical approaches has become imperative to engage learners efectively. Our workshop aimed to delve into the intersection of technology, cognitive psychology, ...

New York2023

Productive breaks in mentally challenging tasks: Comparing free-time pauses to stretching sessions guided by a social robot

Chenyang Wang, Tanguy Hector Lewko, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Performing breaks during long periods of mentally demanding activities is a simple and effective solution to briefly rest the brain and regain concentration. Furthermore, the way we use this break time may have different impacts on the task outcomes. Socia ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Immediate effects of short-duration wellbeing practices on children’s handwriting and posture guided by a social robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Melike Cezayirlioglu

Handwriting practising, as any other repetitive task, often leads the practiser to an overconcentration state where their performance might be affected by postural and mental fatigue. Short breaks to perform unrelated activities, especially relaxation exer ...

2023

Robots for Learning 7 (R4L): A Look from Stakeholders' Perspective

Jauwairia Nasir, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

This year's conference theme "HRI for all" not just raises the importance of reflecting on how to promote inclusion for every type of user but also calls for careful consideration of the different layers of people potentially impacted by such systems. In e ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

A game-based approach for evaluating and customizing handwriting training using an autonomous social robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Handwriting learning is a long and complex process that takes about ten years to be fully mastered. Nearly one-third of all children aged 4-12 experiences handwriting difficulties and, sadly, most of them are left to fight them on their own, due to the sca ...

IEEE2022

Supporting Therapists’ Assessment in Parent-Mediated Training through Autonomous Data Collection

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Parental Training is a methodology where therapists teach caregivers how to train their kids in specific behaviors practicing. It can be used in verbal behavior acquisition for children with autism mediated by the parents. In this paper, we are presenting ...

2022

A Case for the Design of Attention and Gesture Systems for Social Robots

Romain Maure, Utku Norman, Erik Alessandro Wengle, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

The success of social robots, even (or, especially) in use cases as simple as "manning" a booth to promote a product in a shopping mall, depends on their ability of interacting with humans in a timely, effective and enjoyable way. In this paper we present ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Supporting Therapists' Assessment in Parent-Mediated Training Through Autonomous Data Collection

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Parental Training is a methodology where therapists teach caregivers how to train their kids in specific behaviors practicing. It can be used in verbal behavior acquisition for childrenwith autismmediated by the parents. In this paper, we are presenting an ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022