ULisboa researchers develop robot to help blind and sighted children talk to each other
Researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute, Instituto Superior Técnico, INESC-ID and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon have developed a robot to mediate group discussions between children with mixed visual abilities. The team recently presented the results of the study during an international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, held in March this year in Stockholm, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. It is envisaged that these discoveries will positively influence group dynamics at home, in classrooms and workplaces.
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