TY - GEN
T1 - Towards the design of robots inspired in ancient cultures as educational tools
AU - Penaloza, Christian
AU - Lucho, Cesar
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The use of robots as educational tools has demonstrated to be highly effective 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 provide several examples of conceptual designs of robots inspired in ancient gods or historical characters of Mesoamerican and South American cultures. We discuss how some of the traits of ancient gods and characters 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 effective 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 provide several examples of conceptual designs of robots inspired in ancient gods or historical characters of Mesoamerican and South American cultures. We discuss how some of the traits of ancient gods and characters 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-42945-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-42945-8_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979503836
SN - 9783319429441
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 78
EP - 84
BT - Cultural Robotics - 1st International Workshop, CR 2015 and Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Koh, Jeffrey T.K.V.
A2 - Dunstan, Belinda J.
A2 - Silvera-Tawil, David
A2 - Velonaki, Mari
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Cultural Robotics, CR 2015 and Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015
Y2 - 31 August 2015 through 31 August 2015
ER -