Robotic animals might aid in the social development of children with autism

HRI 2008 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Living with Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 271-278

  Stanton, Cady M ^a   Kahn Jr , Peter H ^a   Severson, Rachel L ^a   Ruckert, Jolina H ^a   Gill, Brian T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIBO; Animals; Autism; Reciprocity; Robots; Social development

Indexed keywords

AIBO; AUTISM; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; P-VALUES; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77649254384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1349822.1349858     Document Type: Conference Paper

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