Initial response of autistic children in human-robot interaction therapy with humanoid robot NAO

Shamsuddin, Syamimi; Yussof, Hanafiah; Ismail, Luthffi Idzhar; Hanapiah, Fazah Akhtar; Mohamed, Salina; Piah, H. A.; Zahari, Nur Ismarrubie

doi:10.1109/cspa.2012.6194716

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“…In the various studies that have used it, this robot was perceived by the participants as a smart, non-threatening educational tool [60] with whom children and the elderly can positively interact [61,62]. The robot speaks with a child's voice, expresses emotions (through verbal and non-verbal communication), and uses proper vocabulary.…”

Section: The Nao Humanoid Robotic Platformmentioning

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Robots in Education and Care of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Study on Acceptance by Experienced and Future Professionals

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et al. 2016

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Research in the area of robotics has made available numerous possibilities for further innovation in the education of children, especially in the rehabilitation of those with learning difficulties and/or intellectual disabilities. Despite the scientific evidence, there is still a strong scepticism against the use of robots in the fields of education and care of people. Here we present a study on the acceptance of robots by experienced practitioners (specialized in the treatment of intellectual disabilities) and university students in psychology and education sciences (as future professionals). The aim is to examine the factors, through the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model, that may influence the decision to use a robot as an instrument in the practice. The overall results confirm the applicability of the model in the context of education and care of children, and suggest a positive attitude towards the use of the robot. The comparison highlights some scepticism among the practitioners, who perceive the robot as an expensive and limited tool, while students show a positive perception and a significantly higher willingness to use the robot. From this experience, we formulate the hypothesis that robots may be accepted if more integrated with standard rehabilitation protocols in a way that benefits can outweigh the costs.

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Section: The Nao Humanoid Robotic Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robots in Education and Care of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Study on Acceptance by Experienced and Future Professionals

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Buono

et al. 2016

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…A shift towards socially interactive robots can be seen in their increased application in a variety of roles for use as social and behavioural facilitators, for example, in the area of elderly care (e.g., [1]) and for use in human interaction-therapy (e.g., [2,3]). As interaction between humans and robots is becoming more variegated, an increasing interest is emerging in designing robots with human-like features and qualities that enable interaction with humans in more intuitive and meaningful ways [4,5].…”

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Designing for a Wearable Affective Interface for the NAO Robot: A Study of Emotion Conveyance by Touch

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Alenljung

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Abstract:We here present results and analysis from a study of affective tactile communication between human and humanoid robot (the NAO robot). In the present work, participants conveyed eight emotions to the NAO via touch. In this study, we sought to understand the potential for using a wearable affective (tactile) interface, or WAffI. The aims of our study were to address the following: (i) how emotions and affective states can be conveyed (encoded) to such a humanoid robot, (ii) what are the effects of dressing the NAO in the WAffI on emotion conveyance and (iii) what is the potential for decoding emotion and affective states. We found that subjects conveyed touch for longer duration and over more locations on the robot when the NAO was dressed with WAffI than when it was not. Our analysis illuminates ways by which affective valence, and separate emotions, might be decoded by a humanoid robot according to the different features of touch: intensity, duration, location, type. Finally, we discuss the types of sensors and their distribution as they may be embedded within the WAffI and that would likely benefit Human-NAO (and Human-Humanoid) interaction along the affective tactile dimension.

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“…With a visual programing language, NAO can be used in computer and science classes even with primary school children. Considering the state-of-art research in [19], that shows good results in human-robot interaction with autistic children, we decided to use the robot to evaluate the vision algorithm presented in the previous section, in a real world, and its interaction skills.…”

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Attention Based Object Recogniton Applied to a Humanoid Robot

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Oliveira

Meneghetti

et al. 2014

2014 Joint Conference on Robotics: SBR-LARS Robotics Symposium and Robocontrol

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Abstract-Analysis and recognition of objects in complex scenes is a demanding task for a computer. There is a selection mechanism, named visual attention, that optimizes the visual system, in which only the important parts of the scene are considered at a time. In this work, an object-based visual attention model with both bottom-up and top-down modulation is applied to the humanoid robot NAO to allow a new attention procedure to the robot. This means that the robot, by using its cameras, can recognize geometric figures even with the competition for the attention of all the objects in the image in real time. The proposed method is validated through some tests with 13 to 14 year old kids interacting with the robot NAO that provides some tips (such as the perimeter and area calculation formulas) and recognizes the figure showed by these children. The results are very promissor and show that the proposed approach can contribute for inserting robotics in the educacional context.

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Initial response of autistic children in human-robot interaction therapy with humanoid robot NAO

Cited by 148 publications

References 19 publications

Robots in Education and Care of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Study on Acceptance by Experienced and Future Professionals

Robots in Education and Care of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Study on Acceptance by Experienced and Future Professionals

Designing for a Wearable Affective Interface for the NAO Robot: A Study of Emotion Conveyance by Touch

Attention Based Object Recogniton Applied to a Humanoid Robot

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