From isolation to communication: A case study evaluation of robot assisted play for children with autism with a minimally expressive humanoid robot

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, ACHI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 205-211

  Robins, Ben ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Dickerson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; CO PRESENTS; CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; HUMANOID ROBOTS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SALIENT OBJECTS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 63749102985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACHI.2009.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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