Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: Can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-120

  Robins, B ^a   Dautenhahn, K ^a   Boekhorst, R Te ^a   Billard, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autism therapy; Imitation; Longitudinal study; Robotic assistant; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044439549     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-005-0116-3     Document Type: Article

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