An affect-sensitive social interaction paradigm utilizing virtual reality environments for autism intervention

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5612 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages 703-712

  Welch, Karla Conn ^a   Lahiri, Uttama ^a   Liu, Changchun ^a   Weller, Rebecca ^a   Sarkar, Nilanjan ^a   Warren, Zachary ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ^*

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective model; Autism; Human computer interaction; Physiological responses; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

AFFECT RECOGNITION; AFFECTIVE MODEL; AFFECTIVE RESPONSE; AUTISM; AUTISM INTERVENTION; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COMMUNICATION TASK; CORRUGATOR; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; MACHINE-LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; PHASIC RESPONSE; PHONOCARDIOGRAMS; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; SENSITIVE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT; VR SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINE TOOLS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350332235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02580-8_77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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