Which robot features can stimulate better responses from children with autism in robot-assisted therapy?

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lee, Jaeryoung ^a   Takehashi, Hiroki ^b   Nagai, Chikara ^a   Obinata, Goro ^a   Stefanov, Dimitar ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO FUTURE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism therapy; Human robot interaction; Robot assisted therapy; Therapeutic robot

Indexed keywords

AUTISM THERAPY; AUTISTIC CHILDREN; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; DESIGN FEATURES; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; ROBOT-ASSISTED THERAPY; VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; DISEASES; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84868134041     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/51128     Document Type: Article

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