DIDI in a job interview

The robot is supposed to conduct a job interview. His tasks and abilities in various school subjects will be discussed. It will also try to demonstrate its abilities practically. This application is intended as a humorous performance.

The program starts with a voice command such as "come in". The robot should then introduce itself. The conversation is set up via a dialogue box and his statements are reinforced by gestures, by suitable animations or by LEDs. The robot will try to convince me that it is a very good sports teacher, for which it will demonstrate various exercises and should cheer students on.

Alternatively the robot will pretend to teach art. For this, he should use his sensors to determine shapes or motives. Then its ability to hold a pencil or to recognize (students') faces and estimate their age will be tested. Finally, it will be determined for which tasks at school it is actually suitable.

Nao discusses vocabulary

The robot will be used in English classes. The program starts with a touch on the robot's hand sensor and Nao will then introduce itself shortly to the class. It will say that it is the new English teacher at the school, is very excited about the upcoming English sessions and that it has prepared two different lessons.

After that the session starts. When students have decided to use the human body as the topic of their English class, Nao will show an enthusiastic reaction. Then it will present different body parts in English, showing the respective organ on itself as well. After that, there will be a little quiz. Nao will show different reactions to answers. Finally, it will perform a dance that can be repeated several times.

When students choose the topic food, Nao will announce that today's topic is fruit and vegetables. It asks for students' favorite fruits and vegetables. Depending on the answer, it will react positively or negatively and ask questions. Then it will recognize fruits with the help of his object recognition abilty. In a second phase, children have to name fruits themselves and Nao will tell them if they were right or not.

NAO discusses Cooking Recipes

Nao is supposed to bake something, but without ingredients. The dialogue box with Nao is planned in a way that after a greeting the baking session starts with the question: "Do we want to bake e.g. cookies together?"

Then Nao should detect the missing ingredients with his camera and object recognition ability. The ingredients are printed out and "taught" to Nao beforehand so that it knows which ingredient is on which photo. Afterwards, it is supposed to point to them. For this I will use a timeline.

As a humoristic effect Nao is supposed to pretend that it has made a mistake and should comment this with the help of a Say-Box like: "Oops, watch out".

The session ends by patting Nao's head, whereupon his tactile sensors on his head will trigger the sentence: "See you next time."

DIDI erklärt geometric formulas

The robot will be used in the subject mathematics (geometry). The project consists of several partial aspects. First, different geometric objects, such as squares, circles and possibly three-dimensional figures, are to be explained. For this purpose, the robot should respond to different questions and also change its answers. During the oral description, hand movements are to be made in parallel, which indicate the shapes of the objects. For this purpose I will use the timeline and embed the movements in a dialogue.

Then the robot is supposed to recognize shapes and say what they are. With its object recognition ability, it should recognize simple cardboard objects and any everyday object.

Finally, it should calculate areas and circumferences of special figures and decide whether an answer given by a student is correct or not (programmed in Python). If nobody knows the answer, he would directly name the calculation method and the solution. This has to be controlled by dialogues linked to "calculation boxes". Touching the hand sensors will end this program.

DIDI helps in the subject chemistry

In this project, possible applications of a robot in the subject chemistry are to be tested. Here the robot is to take over the safety instructions in a laboratory. Basic explanations, e.g. wearing protective goggles, are to be started and explained by voice commands. The conversation is set up via a dialogue box.

In addition, the robot is to give more detailed safety instructions for certain chemicals by recognizing warning signs in the form of pictograms and thus being able to describe the danger posed by the substances. Appropriate movements and animations will be integrated into the process. For this purpose, a timeline or pre-programmed animations will be built into dialog boxes.