Using the social robot Probo as a social story telling agent for children with ASD

Interaction Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 348-372

  Vanderborght, Bram ^a,b   Simut, Ramona ^a,b   Saldien, Jelle ^a,c   Pop, Cristina ^b   Rusu, Alina S ^b   Pintea, Sebastian ^b   Lefeber, Dirk ^a   David, Daniel O ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c Hogeschool West Vlaanderen   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ASD children; Robot assisted therapy; Social robot; Social story

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871016395     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.13.3.02van     Document Type: Article

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