Promoting interaction amongst autistic adolescents using robots

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3856-3859

  Costa, Sandra ^a   Santos, Cristina ^a   Soares, Filomena ^a   Ferreira, Manuel ^a   Moreira, Fátima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGO MINDSTORM; MENTAL IMPAIRMENTS; SENSORY MOTOR COORDINATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL LIFE;

BIOMECHANICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTISM; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78650838788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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