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An Interactive Robot Facilitating Social Skills for Children

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HRI'15 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2701973.2702016

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In this paper, we propose an interactive robot system to facilitate easy improvement of children's social capability, with robot-assisted interventions effectively offering social skill training for children with autism. This is achieved through therapeutic protocols with therapy, encouragement, and pause modes, which are determined by behavioral responses of children. Furthermore, the robot evaluates the level of children's reactivity in the child-robot interaction by recognition modules for frontal face and touch, and it generates appropriate training tasks through the combination of kinesic acts and displayable contents. From the experiments of the interplay training with autistic and non-autistic children, it is verified that the proposed system has positive effects on social development of children with autism spectrum disorders.

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Boccanfuso LScarborough SAbramson RHall AWright HO'kane J(2017)A low-cost socially assistive robot and robot-assisted intervention for children with autism spectrum disorderAutonomous Robots10.1007/s10514-016-9554-441:3(637-655)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10514-016-9554-4

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An Interactive Robot Facilitating Social Skills for Children
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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HRI'15 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

March 2015

336 pages

ISBN:9781450333184

DOI:10.1145/2701973

General Chairs:
Julie A. Adams
Vanderbilt University, USA
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William Smart
Oregon State University, USA
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Program Chairs:
Bilge Mutlu
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Leila Takayama
Google[x], USA

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HRI '15: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

March 2 - 5, 2015

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Boccanfuso LScarborough SAbramson RHall AWright HO'kane J(2017)A low-cost socially assistive robot and robot-assisted intervention for children with autism spectrum disorderAutonomous Robots10.1007/s10514-016-9554-441:3(637-655)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2017
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