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Programmable and non-programmable educational robots are, in most cases, associated with sedentary behavior in children. Children interact with educational robots mostly in indoor environments. Whole-body interaction and natural environments seem to potentiate children’s physical and mental health. In order to potentiate children’s physical and mental health we have developed a new set of robotic devices - Biosymtic Robotic devices. We describe the main computational models of Biosymtic Robotic devices: a computational model demonstrating how to increase children’s physical activity levels and contact with natural environments through automatic feedback control mechanisms; a theoretical cognitive model on how to program robotic devices through whole-body interaction in natural environments.
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Ferraz, M. (2017). Robot Programming Through Whole-Body Interaction. In: Oliveira, E., Gama, J., Vale, Z., Lopes Cardoso, H. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10423. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_13
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