Robots as isolators or mediators for children with autism? A cautionary tale

AISB'05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents - Proceedings of the Symposium on Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Robot-Human Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 82-88

  Robins, Ben ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Dubowski, Janek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUTIONARY TALES; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISEASES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EDUCATION;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 67650488745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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