Items with a reviewer byline (coded R) are by AMR's corps of dedicated outside volunteer reviewers. AMR will attempt to get critical reviews of all relevant textbooks, reference works, and monographs. Items without a reviewer byline (coded N) are prepared by AMR in-house staff and are largely based on material such as a book's table of contents and editor's preface or foreword. In the interest of timeliness, most conference proceedings and multi-author contributed volumes will receive descriptive notes in this fashion. Books deemed to be somewhat peripheral to AMR's basic scope may simply be listed

No abstract

No abstract

This study explores the response of autistic children to a few design features of the robots for autism therapy and provides suggestions on the robot features that have a stronger influence on the therapeutic process. First, we investigate the effect of selected robot features on the development of social communication skills in autistic children. The results indicate that the toy’s “face” and “moving limb” usually draw the children’s attention and improve children’s facial expression skills, but do not contribute to the development of other social communication skills. Secondly, we study the response of children with low‐functioning autism to robots with verbal communication functionalities. Test results show that children interacted with the verbal‐featured robot more intensively than with the experimenter. We conclude that robots with faces and moving limbs can engage autistic children in a better way. Facial expression of the robots can elicit a greater response than prompting by humans

This paper reports on the development of a new lower limb prosthesis that can change its volume and hardness based on the users requirements. The size and viscosity of several Magneto-Rheological fluid filled bags, fixed on the inner side of the socket is changed, in order to vary the socket properties. TSB (total surface bearing) sockets have been most selling ones during these two decades. From the user's point of view, it is excellent in this type of sockets that the weight of user is supported with the entire socket surface. However, it is impossible to cope with the volume change of the user's stump. Experimental results show that the performance of the developed MR socket is better than the conventional TSB sockets because the MR socket is controllable in the size and viscosity.