Interactive social robots in special education

This paper presents advances in robot-assisted special education by specially designed social interaction games. The therapeutic objectives include an improvement in social communication and interaction skills, joint attention, response inhibition and cognitive flexibility of children diagnosed with...

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Published in2017 IEEE 7th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin) pp. 126 - 129
Main Authors Amanatiadis, A., Kaburlasos, V. G., Dardani, C., Chatzichristofis, S. A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2017
Subjects
Autism
Education
Games
Human-Robot Interaction
Humanoid robots
Imitation Games
Lattice Computing
Protocols
Special Education
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Summary:This paper presents advances in robot-assisted special education by specially designed social interaction games. The therapeutic objectives include an improvement in social communication and interaction skills, joint attention, response inhibition and cognitive flexibility of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). To achieve the aforementioned objectives, imitation games with humanoid robots are implemented. Preliminary application results suggest that robot-assisted treatment can improve children behavior. Hence, an engagement of humanoid robots in special education is encouraged. Further improvements are planned by computational intelligence techniques toward increasing the humanoid robot autonomy.
ISSN:2166-6822
DOI:10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2017.8210609