Several studies suggest that robots can play a relevant role to address Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper presents a humanoid social robot-assisted behavioral system based on a therapeutic multilevel treatment protocol customized to improve eye contact, joint attention, symbolic play, and basic emotion recognition. In the system, the robot acts as a social mediator, trying to elicit specific behaviors in child, taking into account his/her multimodal signals. Statistical differences in eye contact and facial expression imitation behaviors after the use of the system are reported as preliminary results.
Several studies suggest that robots can play a relevant role to address Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper presents a humanoid social robot-assisted behavioral system based on a therapeutic multilevel treatment protocol customized to improve eye contact, joint attention, symbolic play, and basic emotion recognition. In the system, the robot acts as a social mediator, trying to elicit specific behaviors in child, taking into account his/her multimodal signals. Statistical differences in eye contact and facial expression imitation behaviors after the use of the system are reported as preliminary results.
A multimodal and multilevel system for robotics treatment of autism in children / Palestra, Giuseppe; Varni, Giovanna; Chetouani, Mohamed; Esposito, Floriana. - (2016), pp. 1-6. ( 2016 International Workshop on Social Learning and Multimodal Interaction for Designing Artificial Agents, DAA 2016 Tokyo, Japan 16 Novembre 2016) [10.1145/3005338.3005341].
A multimodal and multilevel system for robotics treatment of autism in children
Giovanna Varni;
2016-01-01
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Several studies suggest that robots can play a relevant role to address Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper presents a humanoid social robot-assisted behavioral system based on a therapeutic multilevel treatment protocol customized to improve eye contact, joint attention, symbolic play, and basic emotion recognition. In the system, the robot acts as a social mediator, trying to elicit specific behaviors in child, taking into account his/her multimodal signals. Statistical differences in eye contact and facial expression imitation behaviors after the use of the system are reported as preliminary results.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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