Brian Scassellati

Shaping productive help-seeking behavior during robot-child tutoring interactions

2016

In intelligent tutoring systems, one fundamental problem that limits learning gains is the unproductive use of on-demand help features, namely overuse or aversion, resulting in students misusing the system rather than engaging in active learning. …

Constructing policies for supportive behaviors and communicative actions in human-robot teaming

2016

Current state-of-the-art robotic systems deployed in industry work in isolation from humans and do not allow for collaboration. Developing a robot that can work side-by-side with a human presents the advantage of allowing both the …