Context-based recommender system to provide cognitive support to online chat counsellors in the Helpline of 113 Suicide Prevention

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Suicide crisis chat counsellors work in an environment which de- mands high emotional and cognitive awareness. A shared opinion among counsellors is that as the chat conversation turns more difficult it takes longer and more effort to come up with a response. Supportive technology might resolve this ”writer’s block” by giving...

Adaptive feedback by a humanoid robot tutoring math

Schools and other educational instances (such as: elementary, primary and secondary schools, schools for applied sciences and universities) are making use of new innovations and technologies to help teachers and students. <br/>After Smart Boards, computers, and tablets, a new field of research arises: can robots in any way help in teaching?...

Question answering with the RoboTutor Nao

This thesis project worked towards extending the interactive capabilities of the RoboTutor Nao, by enabling it to answers natural language questions about topics such as computers, robots and the Nao itself. The main questions we focused on were 1) what a system for answering questions in Dutch and intended for elementary school age children...