Investigating tactile event recognition in child-robot interaction for use in autism therapy

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5347-5351

  Amirabdollahian, Farshid ^a   Robins, Ben ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Ji, Ze ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COGNITIVE MECHANISMS; EVENT RECOGNITION; HUMANOID ROBOT; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; ROBOT BODY; ROBOT SKIN; SKIN PATCH; TACTILE FEEDBACK;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; RECREATION; ROBOTICS; SKIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOUCH; INSTRUMENTATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; ROBOTICS; SKIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOUCH;

EID: 84862295848     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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