Automated detection and classification of positive vs. negative robot interactions with children with autism using distance-based features

HRI 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 323-330

  Feil Seifer, David ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ASD; Behavior modeling; Human Robot interaction; Socially assistive robotics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; ASD; ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; BEHAVIOR MODELING; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; DISTANCE-BASED FEATURES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HUMAN OBSERVERS; NAIVE-BAYES CLASSIFIERS; POSITION TRACKER; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; VIDEO DATA; WALL BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 79953160766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1957656.1957785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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