Embodiment and cognitive learning - Can a humanoid robot help children with autism to learn about tactile social behaviour?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7621 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-75

  Robins, Ben ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Dickerson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assistive Technology; Autism Therapy; Human Robot Interaction; Robot Assisted Play

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTISM THERAPY; AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COGNITIVE LEARNING; COGNITIVE MECHANISMS; CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; HUMANOID ROBOT; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC SKIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TACTILE INTERACTION; TACTILE SENSING;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84868693334     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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