TY - GEN
T1 - A ubiquitous computing platform - Affordable telepresence robot design and applications
AU - Denojean-Mairet, Marc
AU - Tan, Qing
AU - Pivot, Frederique
AU - Ally, Mohamed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/1/26
Y1 - 2015/1/26
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Online education technology
KW - Remote lab
KW - Telepresence robot
KW - Ubiquitous computing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84925280202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSE.2014.162
DO - 10.1109/CSE.2014.162
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84925280202
T3 - Proceedings - 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
SP - 793
EP - 798
BT - Proceedings - 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
A2 - Liu, Xingang
A2 - El Baz, Didier
A2 - Hsu, Ching-Hsien
A2 - Kang, Kai
A2 - Chen, Weifeng
T2 - 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
Y2 - 19 December 2014 through 21 December 2014
ER -