Online affect detection and adaptation in robot assisted rehabilitation for children with autism

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 588-593

  Liu, Changchun ^a   Conn, Karla ^a   Sarkar, Nilanjan ^a   Stone, Wendy ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Autism intervention; Human robot interaction; Physiological sensing; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ADAPTATION MECHANISMS; AFFECTIVE STATES; CHILDREN WITH AUTISM (CWA); CLOSED LOOPS; HUMAN-ROBOT-INTERACTION (HRI); INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MODELING TECHNIQUES; OBSERVER (OBS); REHABILITATION (CONSTRUCTION); ROBOT ASSISTED REHABILITATION; VECTOR MACHINES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 48749084911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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