TY - GEN
T1 - Educational robots as promotors of cultural development
AU - Cuéllar, Francisco
AU - Peñaloza, Christian
AU - López, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/4/12
Y1 - 2016/4/12
N2 - The use of robots as educational tools has demonstrated to be highly efective for attracting students to science and technology related academic fields. Although these academic fields are very important, we believe that other subjects such as language, music, arts, literature, history, etc., are also essential for future generations. For this reason, the goal of this research is to explore the potential use of robots as educational tools for non-technology related fields such as history. We discuss an alternative approach for designing robots inspired in traits and characteristics of historical figures that play an important role in the topic to be studied. We present some examples of conceptual designs of robots inspired in ancient gods of Mesoamerican and South American cultures. We discuss how some of the traits of ancient gods could serve as inspiration for the appearance design of commercial robots, and how these robots could be used in educational environments to attract the attention of students to learn about this history topic.
AB - The use of robots as educational tools has demonstrated to be highly efective for attracting students to science and technology related academic fields. Although these academic fields are very important, we believe that other subjects such as language, music, arts, literature, history, etc., are also essential for future generations. For this reason, the goal of this research is to explore the potential use of robots as educational tools for non-technology related fields such as history. We discuss an alternative approach for designing robots inspired in traits and characteristics of historical figures that play an important role in the topic to be studied. We present some examples of conceptual designs of robots inspired in ancient gods of Mesoamerican and South American cultures. We discuss how some of the traits of ancient gods could serve as inspiration for the appearance design of commercial robots, and how these robots could be used in educational environments to attract the attention of students to learn about this history topic.
KW - Ancient cultures
KW - Education
KW - History
KW - Humanoids
KW - Robots
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84964883169&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451849
DO - 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451849
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964883169
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 547
BT - HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016
Y2 - 7 March 2016 through 10 March 2016
ER -