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Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study

Reading is one of the main activities that readers are immensely practicing during their daily lives and this activity is accompanied with some challenges that may cause disengagement during the process.Recently, assistive robotics technologies have shown extensive powerful effects in assisting its...

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Main Authors: Mohammed, Hayder, Ab. Aziz, Azizi, Ahmad, Rahayu
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/15724/1/ISAMRS.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.1109/ISAMSR.2015.7379127
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spelling my.uum.repo.157242016-11-16T00:47:34Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/15724/ Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study Mohammed, Hayder Ab. Aziz, Azizi Ahmad, Rahayu QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Reading is one of the main activities that readers are immensely practicing during their daily lives and this activity is accompanied with some challenges that may cause disengagement during the process.Recently, assistive robotics technologies have shown extensive powerful effects in assisting its users to tackle various domain specific problems.From that perspective, the main goal of this pilot study is to investigate the problems that readers encounter during reading process.In addition, it aims to probe the need of an assistive robot that makes reading process less challenging.A questionnaire survey was distributed to 100 students at Universiti Utara Malaysia and the analysis of the results showed that an assistive robot is promising to support reading process. Similarly, this study detailed the embodiment and the design aspects that need to be applied while designing an assistive reading robot. 2015-08 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/15724/1/ISAMRS.pdf Mohammed, Hayder and Ab. Aziz, Azizi and Ahmad, Rahayu (2015) Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study. In: International Symposium on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Robotics (ISAMSR 2015), 18-19 August, 2015, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Putrajaya, Malaysia. http://doi.org/10.1109/ISAMSR.2015.7379127
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Mohammed, Hayder
Ab. Aziz, Azizi
Ahmad, Rahayu
Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study
description Reading is one of the main activities that readers are immensely practicing during their daily lives and this activity is accompanied with some challenges that may cause disengagement during the process.Recently, assistive robotics technologies have shown extensive powerful effects in assisting its users to tackle various domain specific problems.From that perspective, the main goal of this pilot study is to investigate the problems that readers encounter during reading process.In addition, it aims to probe the need of an assistive robot that makes reading process less challenging.A questionnaire survey was distributed to 100 students at Universiti Utara Malaysia and the analysis of the results showed that an assistive robot is promising to support reading process. Similarly, this study detailed the embodiment and the design aspects that need to be applied while designing an assistive reading robot.
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author Mohammed, Hayder
Ab. Aziz, Azizi
Ahmad, Rahayu
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Ahmad, Rahayu
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title Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study
title_short Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study
title_full Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study
title_fullStr Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: A pilot study
title_sort exploring the need of an assistive robot to support reading process: a pilot study
publishDate 2015
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