Development and evaluation of a social robot platform for therapy in autism

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4515-4518

  Mazzei, Daniele ^a   Lazzeri, Nicole ^a   Billeci, Lucia ^a   Igliozzi, Roberta ^a   Mancini, Alice ^a   Ahluwalia, Arti ^a   Muratori, Filippo ^a   De Rossi, Danilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE STATE; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; EMOTIONAL STATE; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; HUMANOID ROBOT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP; MODULAR PLATFORM; SOCIAL ROBOTS; SOCIAL SCENARIOS; SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; ROBOTICS; EVALUATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84863580441     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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