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When is it Better to Give Up?: Towards Autonomous Action Selection for Robot Assisted ASD Therapy

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Emmanuel Senft,

Paul Baxter,

James Kennedy, and

Tony BelpaemeAuthors Info & Claims

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

March 2015

Pages 197 - 198

https://doi.org/10.1145/2701973.2702715

Published: 02 March 2015 Publication History

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Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT) for children with ASD has found promising applications. In this paper, we outline an autonomous action selection mechanism to extend current RAT approaches. This will include the ability to revert control of the therapeutic intervention to the supervising therapist. We suggest that in order to maintain the goals of therapy, sometimes it is better if the robot gives up.

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Senft EBaxter PBelpaeme T(2015)Human-guided learning of social action selection for robot-assisted therapyProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems - Volume 4310.5555/3045765.3045769(15-20)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3045765.3045769

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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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University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Google[x], USA

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Maroto-Gómez MAlonso-Martín FMalfaz MCastro-González ÁCastillo JSalichs M(2023)A Systematic Literature Review of Decision-Making and Control Systems for Autonomous and Social RobotsInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-023-00977-315:5(745-789)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2023
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Senft EBaxter PBelpaeme T(2015)Human-guided learning of social action selection for robot-assisted therapyProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems - Volume 4310.5555/3045765.3045769(15-20)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3045765.3045769

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