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Apr 4, 2023

Developing a robot that will help blind children chat with sighted friends

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A new accessibility-focused robot under development will allow children of mixed visual abilities to have a balanced conversation where everyone participates equally.

Researchers at the Interactive Technologies Institute have recently released a study on using a robot to mediate group discussions between children with mixed–.

The team presented the study during the ACM/IEEE conference this March in Stockholm, and it’s now published as part of the Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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