Publications about Wolly

Design and Development of a Social, Educational and Affective Robot

Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Davide Cellie, Gianluca Perosino, Massimo Trainito, Chiara Vaudano.

EAIS 2020 - IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, Bari 2020.
In this article we describe the approach and the first results obtained in the design and implementation of a social and educational robot called Wolly. Including the design and construction of hardware and software components, characterizing the robot with interactive, adaptive and affective properties.

End-User Development for the Wolly Robot.

Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Fabiana Vernero, Gianluca Bova, Davide Cellie, Cristina Gioia.

International Symposium on End User Development, London 2019.
We describe the co-design and implementation of Wolly. We iteratively involved the children as co-designers helping us about the shape and behavior of the robot, as well as the set of commands to control its actions and behavior.

Co-designing with kids an educational robot

Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Valerio Cietto, Ilaria Lombardi, Chiara Vaudano.

IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, Genova 2018.
In this article we report the methodology and the main results obtained in a co-design session with the pupils of an elementary school. We engaged the children as co-designers by helping us create the shape and behavior of an educational robot that we are developing in our HCI lab.