Projects

TILK (Scientific Innovative Approach and Meetings) - is an educational development project aimed at improving the quality of education for IT College students. It offers a three-step approach to help students successfully reach their thesis writing. The project includes several seminars and the development of materials. Program directors and research experts will work together to clarify the requirements for educational materials and teaching methods. They will develop both theoretical and practical guidelines to support students at every stage of their studies. Additionally, program directors and thesis supervisors will assess the quality of the materials created. New courses and supervision meetings will be piloted to gather feedback. Finally, the results of this pilot project will be analyzed, and there will be discussions about the potential introduction of a foundational research course in the spring semester of the second year.

AIRE (AI & Robotics Estonia) demoproject - TalTech IT Didactics Research Group and Pihlakodu AS started a collaboration within the AIRE (AI & Robotics Estonia) demoproject, where the usage scenarios of the TEMI robot as an activity supervisor are designed to improve the well-being of the elderly in nursing homes, the necessary application is adapted for this purpose and it is validated as a solution to assist the activity supervisors in the daily work of Viimsi and Tabasalu nursing homes. The main goal of the project is to increase the well-being of bedridden clients by offering them an additional means of obtaining information and socializing and to test the possibility of reducing the challenges caused by the lack of nursing home staff, especially in the care of the elderly who need a more personal approach.

PYNT (Present Yet Not There) - creating an international community of both research institutions and end-users who are interested in developing and promoting different types of remote communication methods and in particular, robotics.

EuroTEQ international course “Enhancing Social Interaction in Education and Business by using Telepresence Robots” - the core idea of the course is to discover the capabilities of telepresence robotics (TPR) in enhancing social interaction and learn to deploy, configure and extend such robots. The course consists of six learning experience modules, 1 ECTS each: (1) video conferencing vs TPR; (2) social and ethical aspects of TPR; (3) TPR in collaborative learning; (4) teaching tele-presented students - opportunities and challenges; (5) the technical limitations of TPR; (6) how TPR technically work and how to modify them.
The official course curriculum.

EuroTEQ - the goal of the project is to diversify and update the didactic repertoire of IT college teachers, making it more suitable for hybrid learning and various forms of online learning, including synchronous hybrid learning, telepresence robots. We translate and work through the material prepared by Climate-KIC Holding, which is aimed specifically at courses that use the blended learning format.
We are piloting the autumn semester study by involving telepresence robots, including students who participate in the study via the robot.

ReSTELA - is aimed to create robotics labs, where students can participate remotely. Current plan includes a compact computer that can be accessed using some remote connection protocol (VNC, RDP etc.) connected to a programmable microcontrolled with sensors and actuators. In addition to remotely programming the controller student will have a feedback of his/her actions using a camera installed over the working area. ReSTELA is a joint project between TalTech IT College (that’s us), European Centre for Emerging Competencies and Technologies and Scuola di Robotica.
The official web-page of the project https://restela.eu/.