A pilot study of using touch sensing and robotic feedback for children with autism

It is an advantage to use robots in autism therapy since they provide repetitive stimuli during the learning of social skills. A detailed exploration is required to design assistive robots for autism therapy with higher effectiveness. This study has investigated the effectiveness of an interactive r...

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Published inHRI '14 : proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction : March 3-6, 2014, Bielefeld, Germany pp. 222 - 223
Main Authors Lee, Jaeryoung, Obinata, Goro, Aoki, Hirofumi
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 03.03.2014
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Affective touch; Colour
Autism
Force
Games
Human-centered computing > Interaction design > Interaction design process and methods > User centered design
human-robot interaction
Image color analysis
Medical treatment
Robot sensing systems
robot-assisted autism therapy
therapeutic robot
human-robot interaction
colour
affective touch
therapeutic robot
robot-assisted autism therapy
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ISBN1450326587
9781450326582
DOI10.1145/2559636.2563698

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Summary:It is an advantage to use robots in autism therapy since they provide repetitive stimuli during the learning of social skills. A detailed exploration is required to design assistive robots for autism therapy with higher effectiveness. This study has investigated the effectiveness of an interactive robot's feedback during autism therapy for improving specific social skills of the children. The experiment described in this study is that children with autism engaged with an interactive system to perform affective touch behaviour and received the robot's visual and auditory feedback. Results showed that the presence of an interactive robot's feedback triggered more effective children's touch behaviour.
ISBN:1450326587
9781450326582
DOI:10.1145/2559636.2563698