Wafa Johal

Speech-based Gesture Generation for Robots and Embodied Agents: A Scoping Review

Y Liu, G Mohammadi, Y Song, W Johal

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  HAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 9th International User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Human-Agent Interaction

Humans use gestures as a means of non-verbal communication. Often accompanying speech, these gestures have several purposes but in..

Robots for learning - Learner-centred design

W Johal, B Bruno, JK Olsen, M Chetouani, S Lemaignan, A Sandygulova

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

The Robots for Learning workshop series aims at advancing the research topics related to the use of social robots in educational c..

The valley of non-distraction: Effect of robot's human-likeness on perception load

D Ingle, N Marcus, W Johal

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Previous research in psychology has found that human faces have the capability of being more distracting under high perceptual loa..

The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet

Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Bolat Tleubayev, Zhanel Zhexenova, Pierre Dillenbourg, Catherine McBride, Anara Sandygulova

Journal article  |  2021  |  NPJ SCIENCE OF LEARNING

Do handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our mea..

"It Is Not the Robot Who Learns, It Is Me." Treating Severe Dysgraphia Using Child-Robot Interaction

Thomas Gargot, Thibault Asselborn, Ingrid Zammouri, Julie Brunelle, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Dominique Archambault, Mohamed Chetouani, David Cohen, Salvatore M Anzalone

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY

Writing disorders are frequent and impairing. However, social robots may help to improve children's motivation and to propose enjo..

Domestic Drones: Context of Use in Research Literature

M Obaid, W Johal, O Mubin

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  HAI 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

Domestic robotic entities are on the rise, out of which, domestic drones are taking place in our society as one of the upcoming in..

Swarm Robots in Education: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities

W Johal, Y Peng, H Mi

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  HAI 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

This study reviews published scientific literature on the use of swarm robots for education purposes in the last ten years. It foc..

P.114 Automatic assessment of motors impairments in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review

T Gargot, D Archambault, M Chetouani, D Cohen, W Johal, SM Anzalone

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Neuropsychopharmacology

"if you've gone straight, now, you must turn left" - Exploring the use of a tangible interface in a collaborative treasure hunt for people with visual impairments

Q Chibaudel, W Johal, B Oriola, M J-M Macé, P Dillenbourg, V Tartas, C Jouffrais

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  ASSETS 2020 - 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) have been found to be relevant tools for collaborative learning by providing a shared workspace and..

Acquisition of handwriting in children with and without dysgraphia: A computational approach

Thomas Gargot, Thibault Asselborn, Hugues Pellerin, Ingrid Zammouri, Salvatore M Anzalone, Laurence Casteran, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, David Cohen, Caroline Jolly

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Handwriting is a complex skill to acquire and it requires years of training to be mastered. Children presenting dysgraphia exhibit..