The Design, Development, and Deployment of RoboParrot for Screening Autistic Children

Dehkordi, Pegah Soleimman; Moradi, Hadi; Mahmoudi, Maryam; Pouretemad, Hamid Reza

doi:10.1007/s12369-015-0309-8

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Various robots are now designed, from humanoids to androids, to be able to establish interactions with humans [3, 1, 16]. They have been intensively studied in various scenarios such as education [35,14], autism therapy [5,11], guidance [18], and driving support [17,25]. For such social robots, natural language has been considered to be a significant interactive modality.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expressing Emotions through Color, Sound, and Vibration with an Appearance-Constrained Social Robot

Song

Yamada

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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Many researchers are now dedicating their efforts to studying interactive modalities such as facial expressions, natural language, and gestures. This phenomenon makes communication between robots and individuals become more natural. However, many robots currently in use are appearance constrained and not able to perform facial expressions and gestures. In addition, although humanoid-oriented techniques are promising, they are time and cost consuming, which leads to many technical difficulties in most research studies. To increase interactive efficiency and decrease costs, we alternatively focus on three interaction modalities and their combinations, namely color, sound, and vibration. We conduct a structured study to evaluate the effects of the three modalities on a human's emotional perception towards our simple-shaped robot "Maru." Our findings offer insights into human-robot affective interactions, which can be particularly useful for appearance-constrained social robots. The contribution of this work is not so much the explicit parameter settings but rather deepening the understanding of how to express emotions through the simple modalities of color, sound, and vibration while providing a set of recommended expressions that HRI researchers and practitioners could readily employ.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expressing Emotions through Color, Sound, and Vibration with an Appearance-Constrained Social Robot

Song

Yamada

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

124

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“…For example, Dehkordi et al [106] developed a parrot-like robot called RoboParrot for screening autistic children. RoboParrot is placed on a fake wooden base inside a cage mounted with a webcam, with a USB cable coming out of its tail and connecting the embedded hardware with the micro-controller board.…”

Section: Social Robotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Dehkordi et al's study [106], the system output consists of simple motions of the robot parrot following the commands of the operator, as well as voice from the speaker uttered by the operator. This involves the use of body motor to control the motions of the wings, the legs, and the neck, and the use of head motor to control the motions of the eyes and the beak.…”

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confidence: 99%

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

Liu

Zhao

et al. 2017

Applied Sciences

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Abstract:The rapid development of computer and robotic technologies in the last decade is giving hope to perform earlier and more accurate diagnoses of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and more effective, consistent, and cost-conscious treatment. Besides the reduced cost, the main benefit of using technology to facilitate treatment is that stimuli produced during each session of the treatment can be controlled, which not only guarantees consistency across different sessions, but also makes it possible to focus on a single phenomenon, which is difficult even for a trained professional to perform, and deliver the stimuli according to the treatment plan. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of research on recent technology-facilitated diagnosis and treat of children and adults with ASD. Different from existing reviews on this topic, which predominantly concern clinical issues, we focus on the engineering perspective of autism studies. All technology facilitated systems used for autism studies can be modeled as human machine interactive systems where one or more participants would constitute as the human component, and a computer-based or a robotic-based system would be the machine component. Based on this model, we organize our review with the following questions: (1) What are presented to the participants in the studies and how are the content and delivery methods enabled by technologies? (2) How are the reactions/inputs collected from the participants in response to the stimuli in the studies? (3) Are the experimental procedure and programs presented to participants dynamically adjustable based on the responses from the participants, and if so, how? and (4) How are the programs assessed?

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“…Robots have also been built as toys for children to program, such as PETS, which can tell stories [39]. Playful parrot robots, RoboParrot and KiliRo, have been used with autistic children, as tools for screening and to achieve enjoyable learning [13,40]. Furthermore, some robots have been built as play partners, such as Maggie, which can play various games including Tic-tac-toe, Hangman, Twenty Questions, Peekaboo, and "Animal Quiz" [41], or Probo, Zeno, Rovio, and Nao, which have also been used to play games with autistic children, involving identifying emotions [42,43] and imitation [44,45].…”

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Design for an Art Therapy Robot: An Explorative Review of the Theoretical Foundations for Engaging in Emotional and Creative Painting with a Robot

Cooney

Menezes

2018

MTI

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Social robots are being designed to help support people’s well-being in domestic and public environments. To address increasing incidences of psychological and emotional difficulties such as loneliness, and a shortage of human healthcare workers, we believe that robots will also play a useful role in engaging with people in therapy, on an emotional and creative level, e.g., in music, drama, playing, and art therapy. Here, we focus on the latter case, on an autonomous robot capable of painting with a person. A challenge is that the theoretical foundations are highly complex; we are only just beginning ourselves to understand emotions and creativity in human science, which have been described as highly important challenges in artificial intelligence. To gain insight, we review some of the literature on robots used for therapy and art, potential strategies for interacting, and mechanisms for expressing emotions and creativity. In doing so, we also suggest the usefulness of the responsive art approach as a starting point for art therapy robots, describe a perceived gap between our understanding of emotions in human science and what is currently typically being addressed in engineering studies, and identify some potential ethical pitfalls and solutions for avoiding them. Based on our arguments, we propose a design for an art therapy robot, also discussing a simplified prototype implementation, toward informing future work in the area.

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The Design, Development, and Deployment of RoboParrot for Screening Autistic Children

Cited by 39 publications

References 15 publications

Expressing Emotions through Color, Sound, and Vibration with an Appearance-Constrained Social Robot

Expressing Emotions through Color, Sound, and Vibration with an Appearance-Constrained Social Robot

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

Design for an Art Therapy Robot: An Explorative Review of the Theoretical Foundations for Engaging in Emotional and Creative Painting with a Robot

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