Cute and soft: Baby steps in designing robots for children with autism

Proceedings - WASA 2012: Workshop at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 77-79

  Hoa, Truong Dien ^a   Cabibihan, John John ^b  

^a HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

autism; human robot interaction; robot gestures; social robots; social story

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN; FUTURE DESIGNS; HUMANOID ROBOT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; SOCIAL STORY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84872836346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2425296.2425310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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