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Robot Programming Through Whole-Body Interaction

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Programmable and non-programmable educational robots are, in most cases, associated with sedentary behavior in children. Children interact with educational robots mostly in indoor environments. Whole-body interaction and natural environments seem to potentiate children’s physical and mental health. In order to potentiate children’s physical and mental health we have developed a new set of robotic devices - Biosymtic Robotic devices. We describe the main computational models of Biosymtic Robotic devices: a computational model demonstrating how to increase children’s physical activity levels and contact with natural environments through automatic feedback control mechanisms; a theoretical cognitive model on how to program robotic devices through whole-body interaction in natural environments.

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  1. Biosymtic Robotics, Almada, Portugal

    Marta Ferraz

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  1. Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Eugénio Oliveira

  2. Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João Gama

  3. Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Zita Vale

  4. Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Henrique Lopes Cardoso

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Ferraz, M. (2017). Robot Programming Through Whole-Body Interaction. In: Oliveira, E., Gama, J., Vale, Z., Lopes Cardoso, H. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10423. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_13

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