RoDiCA: A human-robot interaction system for treatment of childhood autism spectrum disorders

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ranatunga, Isura ^a   Torres, Nahum A ^a   Patterson, Rita ^b   Bugnariu, Nicoleta ^b   Stevenson, Matt ^c   Popa, Dan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c HANSON ROBOTICS   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder; Human Robot Interaction; Physical Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ARM MOTIONS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; BODY LANGUAGE; CLINICAL TREATMENTS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIRECT CONTROL; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMANOID ROBOT; INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERACTIVE ROBOTICS; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; MOTOR SKILLS; ROBOT MOTION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; SOCIAL SCIENCES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84871980648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2413097.2413160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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