Abstract
This paper presents the EU EASEL project, which explores the potential impact and relevance of a robot in educational settings. We present the project objectives and the theorectical background on which the project builds, briefly introduce the EASEL technological developments, and end with a summary of what we have learned from the evaluation studies carried out in the project so far.
D. Reidsma—This project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2013-10) as part of EASEL under grant agreement no. 611971. Coauthors are grouped by institute.
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Reidsma, D. et al. (2016). The EASEL Project: Towards Educational Human-Robot Symbiotic Interaction. In: Lepora, N., Mura, A., Mangan, M., Verschure, P., Desmulliez, M., Prescott, T. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9793. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_27
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