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Applied Social Robotics—Building Interactive Robots with LEGO Mindstorms

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Teaching Social Robotics is a requiring and challenging task due to the interdisciplinary of this research field. We think that it can not be taught in a solely theoretical manner. To help students to gain more interest in the topic and to foster their curiosity we restructured a paper club like lecture to create a bridge between a theoretical topic and practical applications. This paper describes our approach to create a lecture covering theory, methods and how to transfer those to applied informatics. Described is the given theoretical input and how students learn to transfer these to a robot they build on their own. We also evaluate how the new structure was accepted and what lessons can be learned for this lecture style.

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Notes

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    http://www.e-fi.de/fileadmin/Gutachten_2016/EFI_Gutachten_2016.pdf, visited 03/11/2016.

  2. 2.

    http://education.lego.com/MINDSTORMS-EV3.

  3. 3.

    http://srl.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ss15seminarsocialrobotics, visited 03/10/2016.

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    http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~athomaz/classes/CS7633-HRI/, visited 03/10/2016.

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    https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~berry123/Courses/HRI/HRI%20Syllabus.pdf, visited 03/10/2016.

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    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/ri899.html, visited 03/10/2016.

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    http://www.lejos.org/.

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    CITEC, https://www.youtube.com/citecbielefeld.

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This research/work was supported by the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology CITEC (EXC 277) at Bielefeld University, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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    Andreas Kipp & Sebastian Schneider

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  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria , Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria , Vienna, Austria

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  4. URPI FEI STU , Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

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Kipp, A., Schneider, S. (2017). Applied Social Robotics—Building Interactive Robots with LEGO Mindstorms. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R. (eds) Robotics in Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 457. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42975-5_3

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