@L2Tor

L2TOR (pronounced ‘el tutor’) is a research project that aims to design a tutor robot that can be used to support teaching preschool children a second language.

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We are proud to announce that today Dr. Jan de Wit was awarded Cum Laude for his dissertation 'I like the way you move: Robots that gesture, and their potential as second language tutors for children' as part of @L2Tor #TiU @jmsdewit
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Robots can support teachers in individual second language lessons, where gestures increase children's engagement and promote learning. They can relieve the pressure on overloaded classrooms. Jan de Wit @jmsdewit defends this research for his PhD on Jan 28. tilburguniversity.edu/curren…
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Our @SciRobotics paper just published. Online interactive machine learning for social robots, in a large, real-world domain (where we also learn the social policy!) Emmanuel's PhD work, with @skadge and @PEBaxter. @IDLabResearch @ugent – at Ostend, Belgium
Science Robotics@SciRobotics23 Oct 2019
A #robot quickly learned to give advice and encouragement to young students learning about the food web, thanks to a new interactive #machinelearning system created by scientists from @PlymUni, @ugent. fcld.ly/arvl0cn
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Today we are showcasing L2TOR at the LocHal in Tilburg for the day of working and learning @TilburgU @lochal013 #ddwl
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Robots help young learners acquire a second language more easily | Result In Brief @CORDIS_EU @L2Tor europa.eu/!cw73bD – at Ghent, Belgium
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Dutch newspaper @volkskrant has pubished a nice feature on Rianne van den Berghe's PhD thesis feature our long-term evaluation study. volkskrant.nl/ts-be41660f
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Here's a link to Dr. Rianne van den Berghe's PhD thesis titled 'Social robots as second-language tutors for young children: Challenges and opportunities'. Enjoy reading. bit.ly/2XpyYYA
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Today, Rianne van den Berghe successfully defended L2TOR's first PhD thesis. An excellent dissertation, which we will post online soon, so stay tuned.
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Hurrah! L2TOR just won the most prestigious award at @HRI_2019: The best full paper award! Full version is here: l2tor.eu/effe/wp-content/upl…
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Paul Vogt presenting the L2TOR large-scale study results at @HRI_2019. Can kids learn a second language from a robot? l2tor.eu/effe/wp-content/upl… – at Daegu, Republic of Korea
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Today, L2TOR – The Movie was shown as a 3 minute feature for about 400 participants of the HRI conference in South Korea. Here is a link to the full version. #HRI2019 youtu.be/IS8CbzJZX4k
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Mirjam de Haas presents her work on anthropomorphism at the #R4L workshop at #hri2019 in South Korea.
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Tony Belpaeme talking about robots for education as part of a Dutch meeting to discuss the next steps after L2TOR.
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Paul Leseman talking about Dutch-Turkish children learning Dutch from our social robot during g the second day of our symposium.
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Stefan Kopp "engagement is the dark matter of interaction, no one knows what is it or how to measure it, but we know it's important" @L2Tor
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The closing symposium of @L2Tor has started with a talk by our coordinator @TonyBelpaeme. Thanks to Koç University for organising. #robots4learning
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We have released a new film illustrating the project and our spring experiment. Enjoy watching! Here's the teaser. For the full version, see l2tor.eu
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L2TOR demonstrates the Charades experiment at RobotLove.nl during the @dutchdesignweek in Eindhoven. We're there until Friday, 27 Oct. @TilburgU
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Symposium on Robots for Language Learning, 12-13 December 2018, Istanbul, Turkey. Come and join the discussion! @l2tor #HRI sites.google.com/view/l2tors…

Symposium on Robots for Language Learning

Introduction In recent years social robots have shown great promise as tutors and teaching aids. Education has come under pressure to deliver a more personalised, one-to-one experience., but this has...

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Emiel Krahmer and Paul Vogt present L2TOR at the opening event of Robot Love #robotlove
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