A content manager for a complex multimodal robotic management: the Robo-eLC case

Implementing new technologies in adaptable robotic appliances based on multidisciplinary approaches creates at least a twofold problem: to properly design the multifaceted robotic behavior and to render as simplified as possibly the maintenance and monitoring of its components. In this article is described an adopted solution for managing a robotic appliance meant for e-learning and e-commerce application, the Robo-eLC. The designed tutoring interface constitutes a learning interface for nonexperts that need to re-design and control the robotic behaviors. By constructing the robotic learning elements, the non-experts acquire, step by step, a deep understanding of ICT means and e-learning contents, becoming in a short period experts of the learning systems they have to manage. The robot, capable of incentivizing customers´ interaction via its multimodal interface, can help them in making thoughtful money operations (i.e. donations for chanty activities in the test cases of the ongoing research).