Adaptation of the humanoid robot to speech disfluency therapy

Kwasniewicz, Lukasz; Kuniszyk-Jóźkowiak, Wiesława; Wójcik, Grzegorz M.; Masiak, Jolanta

doi:10.1515/bams-2016-0018

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“…Similarly, Castillo et al [38] created an application utilizing a desktop social robot called Mini to support rehabilitation exercises for adults with apraxia. In addressing stuttering, Kwaśniewicz et al [39] employed the social robot Nao to provide "echo" by combining delayed auditory feedback and choral speech while clients worked on improving their fluency.…”

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“…The paper [39] describes an application that allows the use of a humanoid robot NAO as a stutterer's assistant and therapist based on auditory and visual feedback. For auditory feedback, the "echo" method, known also as delayed auditory feedback (DAF), is modified.…”

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“…The paper [39] reports an application which provides an opportunity to use a humanoid robot as a stutterer's aide and therapist. Visual and auditory feedback was applied during the therapy with the robot.…”

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“…In addition, robots can give visual and auditory feedback which is essential for therapists [15,48,60].  Speech rate control: Social robots can aid children in practicing speaking at a slower rate, offering real-time feedback to improve fluency gradually [22,23,39]. The scenarios described in Tables 1 and 2 represent different studies of child-robot interaction.…”

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“…SARs are able to initiate and support communication and enrich child's vocabulary. They also help therapists train and assess linguistic capabilities of children and adolescents with language impairments[6][7][8]13,[15][16][17]23,32,35,38,39,[41][42][43][44][45][47][48][49][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]62].•Articulation therapy: Social robots can help children with speech disorders practice pronunciation and articulation exercises. The youngsters are observed to show increased verbal production and participation via SARs.…”

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Exploring the Potential of Social Robots for Speech and Language Therapy: A Review and Analysis of Interactive Scenarios

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The use of innovative technology in the field of Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) has gained significant attention nowadays. Despite being a promising research area, Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have not been thoroughly studied and used in SLT. This paper makes two main contributions: firstly, providing a comprehensive review of existing research on the use of SARs to enhance communication skills in children and adolescents. Secondly, organizing the information into tables that categorize the interactive play scenarios described in the surveyed papers. The inclusion criteria for play scenarios in the tables are based only on their effectiveness for SLT proven by experimental findings. The data, systematically presented in a table format, allow readers to easily find relevant information based on various factors, such as disorder type, age, treatment technique, robot type, etc. The study concludes that the despite limited research on the use of social robots for children and adolescents with communication disorders (CD), promising outcomes have been reported. The authors discuss the methodological, technical, and ethical limitations related to the use of SARs for SLT in clinical or home environments, as well as the huge potential of conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a secondary assistive technology to facilitate speech and language interventions.

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Opportunities for social robots in the stuttering clinic: A review and proposed scenarios

Chandra

Gupta

Loucks

et al. 2022

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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The inclusion of technologies such as telepractice, and virtual reality in the field of communication disorders has transformed the approach to providing healthcare. This research article proposes the employment of similar advanced technology – social robots, by providing a context and scenarios for potential implementation of social robots as supplements to stuttering intervention. The use of social robots has shown potential benefits for all the age group in the field of healthcare. However, such robots have not yet been leveraged to aid people with stuttering. We offer eight scenarios involving social robots that can be adapted for stuttering intervention with children and adults. The scenarios in this article were designed by human–robot interaction (HRI) and stuttering researchers and revised according to feedback from speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The scenarios specify extensive details that are amenable to clinical research. A general overview of stuttering, technologies used in stuttering therapy, and social robots in health care is provided as context for treatment scenarios supported by social robots. We propose that existing stuttering interventions can be enhanced by placing state-of-the-art social robots as tools in the hands of practitioners, caregivers, and clinical scientists.

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Therapeutic potential of robots for people who stutter: a preliminary study

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Kobayashi,

Sakai

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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IntroductionGrowing anecdotal evidence suggests the feasibility of robotic intervention for people who suffer from disorders related to state anxiety. Few studies have been conducted on utilizing robots for persons who stutter (PWS). The present study examines the feasibility of using a robot for speech therapy for PWS.MethodsWe prepared four settings (i.e., interviews with unfamiliar persons, interviews with unfamiliar communication robots, reading sentences aloud with a tandem robot that can utter the same words as a user by repeating the user’s voice after a short delay, and reading sentences aloud while being alone). We assessed the potential of the robots as both interlocutors and practice partners in training with delayed auditory feedback (DAF) for PWS. Moreover, we assessed the relationship between the trait of stuttering and the participants’ affinity to the robots.ResultsEleven PWS participated in the study. Eight (72.7%) participants had fewer stuttering-related psychological symptoms when they communicated with robots than when they communicated with humans. Spearman’s rank correlation analysis revealed that there was a significant negative correlation between the Modified Erickson Communication Attitude scale (S-24) and the difference between the scores for stuttering-related psychological symptoms pertaining to the communication robot and humans (p < 0.01). Six participants (54.5%) had fewer stuttering-related psychological symptoms when they read aloud with the tandem robot than when they read aloud alone. There were significant positive correlations between S-24 and the differences between the scores for stuttering-related psychological symptoms when reading aloud with the tandem robot and those when reading aloud alone (p < 0.01).DiscussionThe communication robot and tandem utterance robot can sometimes be burdensome, although both robots were always easier to talk to for PWS in this preliminary study. The participants with positive speech-related attitudes were more inclined to decrease stuttering-related psychological symptoms when communicating with CommU than when communicating with humans. The participants whose speech-related attitudes were negative were more inclined to show a decrease in stuttering-related psychological symptoms when reading aloud with the tandem robot. Further studies are needed to provide more detailed information.

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Adaptation of the humanoid robot to speech disfluency therapy

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Exploring the Potential of Social Robots for Speech and Language Therapy: A Review and Analysis of Interactive Scenarios

Exploring the Potential of Social Robots for Speech and Language Therapy: A Review and Analysis of Interactive Scenarios

Opportunities for social robots in the stuttering clinic: A review and proposed scenarios

Therapeutic potential of robots for people who stutter: a preliminary study

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