An android for enhancing social skills and emotion recognition in people with autism

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 507-515

  Pioggia, Giovanni ^a,c   Igliozzi, Roberta ^b   Ferro, Marcello ^a   Ahluwalia, Arti ^a   Muratori, Filippo ^b,c,d,e   De Rossi, Danilo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^c Department of Developmental Neuropsychiatry ^*

^d Child Psychiatry Department

^e Italian Association for Infant Mental Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autism; Biomimetics; Recognition of emotional expressions; Robot based treatment method; Social attention

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BIOMIMETICS; RECOGNITION OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; ROBOT-BASED TREATMENT METHOD; SOCIAL ATTENTION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; FACE RECOGNITION; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; PATIENT TREATMENT; ROBOTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SKILL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOMIMETICS; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 29544447618     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2005.856076     Document Type: Article

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