Robots for use in autism research

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages 275-294

  Scassellati, Brian ^a   Henny Admoni, ^a   Matarić, Maja ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral therapy; Intelligent robots; Robots for therapy; Socially assistive robotics

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; FUTURE TRENDS; ROBOT DESIGNS; ROBOT THERAPY; SAR SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CUES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISEASES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

AUTISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALLY ASSISTIVE ROBOTIC;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMMUNICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84864251533     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071811-150036     Document Type: Review

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