User-Friendly Robot Environment for Creation of Social Scenarios

Lourens, Tino; Barakova, Emilia

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21344-1_23

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“…The trials were programmed and executed on an ASUS Zenbook UX31A (OS Windows 8.1) using Tino's Visual Programming Environment (TiViPE) 2.1.2 [6,38]. There was an interval of 1 to 2 weeks between the two trials for each participant.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of robots’ intonation and bodily appearance on robot-mediated communicative treatment outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder

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Barakova

et al. 2017

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Previous research has suggested that robotmediated therapy is effective in the treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but not all robots seem equally appropriate for this purpose. We investigated in an exploratory study whether a robot's intonation (monotonous vs. normal) and bodily appearance (mechanical vs. humanized) influence the treatment outcomes of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) sessions for children with ASD. The children (age range 4-8 years) played puzzle games with a robot which required communication with the robot. The treatment outcomes were measured in terms of both task performance and affective states. We have found that intonation and bodily appearance have an effect on children's affective states but not on task performance. Specifically, humanized bodily appearance leads to more positive affective states in general and a higher degree of interest in the interaction than mechanical bodily appearance. Congruence between bodily appearance and intonation triggers a higher degree of happiness in children with ASD than incongruence between these two factors.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of robots’ intonation and bodily appearance on robot-mediated communicative treatment outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder

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“…Specific reasons why participants had a positive impression include: its object oriented nature (P6); it is clear, concise and the class definitions are well thought out (P6, P8, P10); the notation is easy to understand (P10); and it allows programmers to express emotional emphasis and empathy on the robot (P8). Individual dimensions with the most general positive comments include role expressiveness (9), visibility & juxtaposability (8), closeness of mapping (6) and progressive evaluation (6).…”

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“…Adding gesture recognition is a future goal of ours. As we have described, most of these systems fail to define primitives at a high level (Choregraphe [5], Interaction Composer [7] & TiViPE [8]). All fail to implement key requirements of social interaction.…”

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“…TiViPE Nao API [8] realises the fewest requirements, making it the least equipped tool for specifying social interaction. It has abstractions for programming speech synthesis, body language, facial expressions and running multiple gestures at once.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Lourens et al [8] present an API for programming a Nao robot paired with a visual programming environment TiViPE. They use the environment to create a social scenario of a robot shaking a child's hand.…”

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A human-centric API for programming socially interactive robots

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MacDonald

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

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Abstract-Whilst robots are increasingly being deployed as social agents, it is still difficult to program them to interact socially. This is because current programming tools either require programmers to work at a low level or lack features needed to create certain aspects of social interaction. High level, domain specific tools with features designed specifically to meet the requirements of social interaction have the potential to ease the creation of social applications. We present a domain specific application programming interface (API) that is designed to meet the requirements of social interaction. The Cognitive Dimensions Framework was used as a design tool during the design process and the API was validated by implementing an exemplar application. The evaluation of the API showed that programmers with no robotics knowledge were positively impressed by the notation and that its organization, domain specific interfaces and object oriented nature positively affected several Cognitive Dimensions.

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