Robot Design and Action Study for the Treatment of Autistic Spectrum Disorders Children

Abstract

As the children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders(ASD) are increasing, and study of intelligent robot is dynamically proceeding, therapeutic robots are needed to help ASD children who have a lack of social interaction, inadequacy of communication. This paper deals with the design and operation of a cat robot for the treatment. To configure the behavior based on the results of field experiments, emotional treatment is suggested and robot structure considering ASD characteristic is designed with some sensors. In addition, we verified the effectiveness of the operation by field test.

“Warm Robots” for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder? The Thermodynamics of Human Sociality and the Technology of Inclusion in South Korea

“…These efforts backdrop the trends in developing and employing robots for clinical and educational intervention in children with ASD, such as iRobiQ, developed by Yujin Robot Co., and CARO, developed by the Center for Robotic Research at the Korea Institute for Science and Technology. Naturally, there are dozens of scholarly articles on the development and application of animal-robot toys and humanoids for children with ASD in South Korea from the perspectives of medicine, behavioral psychology, special education, engineering, and design (see, for example,Kim and Song 2012;Ku and Lee 2012;Lee et al 2016;Yun et al 2016). However, social and historical accounts of this kind of robot or of the cultural and philosophical implications of its use are rare (e.g., M. Choi 2017), and none focuses on robots for supporting people with ASD in South Korea.…”