A ubiquitous computing platform - Affordable telepresence robot design and applications

Marc Denojean-Mairet, Qing Tan, Frederique Pivot, Mohamed Ally

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Abstract

Online universities are growing and they have to continuously integrate new technologies to provide remote students with ubiquitous learning. How to conduct lab work becomes a great challenge in distance education. Existing methods to deal with lab work in distance education institutions usually require students to travel to the actual university laboratory or the nearest located laboratories or be lent lab kits by the university. This is not perfect and can be costly to the universities and students. One possible novel solution would be to use telepresence robots as avatars for remote lab work. To investigate this novel application of telepresence robots, we built an affordable robot and we provide an application scenario, the affordable telepresence robot for remote lab as a case study. This paper will mainly focus on the design and applications of affordable telepresence robot that provides a ubiquitous computing platform for the remote lab solution in distance education.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2014, Jointly with 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC 2014, 13th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, I-SPAN 2014 and 8th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2014
EditorsXingang Liu, Didier El Baz, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Kai Kang, Weifeng Chen
Pages793-798
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479979813
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jan. 2015
Event17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2014 - Jointly with 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC 2014, 13th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, I-SPAN 2014 and 8th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2014 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 19 Dec. 201421 Dec. 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2014, Jointly with 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC 2014, 13th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, I-SPAN 2014 and 8th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2014

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2014 - Jointly with 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, IUCC 2014, 13th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, I-SPAN 2014 and 8th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, FCST 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period19/12/1421/12/14

Keywords

  • Online education technology
  • Remote lab
  • Telepresence robot
  • Ubiquitous computing

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