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Perceptual Algorithms for Social Robots in Early Childhood Education.

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Title/Author:	Perceptual Algorithms for Social Robots in Early Childhood Education./
Author:	Malmir, Mohsen.
Description:	1 online resource (141 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08B(E).
Subject:	Computer science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369682328

Perceptual Algorithms for Social Robots in Early Childhood Education.
Malmir, Mohsen.

Perceptual Algorithms for Social Robots in Early Childhood Education. - 1 online resource (141 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Social robots are becoming a part of everyday life, from household smart companions to education and healthcare assistants, assembly robots in factories and museum guide robots, they adapt different appearances and exhibit a range of capabilities and duties. These robots are benefiting from machine perception systems that automatically recognize people, recognize their facial expressions, and the surrounding environment. In this thesis, we focus on RUBI, a social robot designed to interact with toddlers in classroom and enrich the early childhood education environments. We develop perception algorithms for RUBI to recognize faces while interacting with toddlers in the classroom. We use facial recognition, along with facial expression recognition to analyze the social structure of the classroom and to monitor the emotional development of toddlers in the classroom. In the first two chapters of this thesis, we show that RUBI discovers useful aspects of the social structure of the toddler's group, as well as the children's preferences for different activities and toddler's preferences to play with or to avoid playing with other specific children. These studies illustrate that social robots may become a useful tool in early childhood education to discover socio-emotional patterns over time and to monitor toddlers development.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369682328Subjects--Topical Terms:

573171
Computer science.
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