Affect-sensitive assistive intervention technologies for children with autism: An individual-specific approach

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 442-447

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

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION FRAMEWORK; AFFECT RECOGNITION; AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; AFFECTIVE STATES; AUTISM INTERVENTION; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILDREN WITH AUTISM; COGNITIVE TASKS; EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSING; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; REHABILITATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 52949115327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2008.4600706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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