The Influence of Children’s Gender and Level of Shyness on the Student-Teacher Relationships Quality

Shyness has been studied a lot over the past decades. Yet, this construct still remains complicated to define. In 1972, Kohlberg, LaCrosse and Ricks called it the social withdrawal. Back then, shyness was not seen as an important variable because Read More

Robotic Assistants in Therapy and Education of Children with Autism: Can a Small Humanoid Robot Help Encourage Social Interaction Skills?

This humanoid robot is called Kaspar and he can perform human-like features like talking, singing and even playing the tambourine. There are sensors inside Kaspar that are sensitive to human’s touch and that trigger a pre-programmed response to cast inappropriate Read More