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In this work we introduce NarRob, a robot able to engage in conversations and tell stories, by accompanying the speech with proper gestures. We discuss about the main components of the robot’s architecture, and some possible education experiments that we are planning to carry out in real scholastic contexts.
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Augello, A., Infantino, I., Maniscalco, U., Pilato, G., Vella, F. (2019). Introducing NarRob, a Robotic Storyteller. In: Gentile, M., Allegra, M., Söbke, H. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11385. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_36
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