'Make it move': Playing cause and effect games with a robot companion for children with cognitive disabilities

ECCE 2011 - European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2011: 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 105-112

  Lehmann, Hagen ^a   Iacono, Iolanda ^b   Robins, Ben ^a   Marti, Patrizia ^b   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

children; cognitive disabilities; human robot interaction; IROMEC and KASPAR

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDREN; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COGNITIVE DISABILITY; EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES; HUMANOID ROBOT; IROMEC AND KASPAR; MOBILE ROBOTIC; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; ROBOT COMPANION; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL DISABILITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL SKILLS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EDUCATION; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84255160971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2074712.2074734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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