A step towards developing adaptive robot-mediated intervention architecture (ARIA) for children with autism

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 289-299

  Bekele, Esubalew T ^a   Lahiri, Uttama ^b   Swanson, Amy R ^c   Crittendon, Julie A ^c   Warren, Zachary E ^c   Sarkar, Nilanjan ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR   (India)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation robotics; robot and autism; robot assisted autism intervention; social human robot interaction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES; AUTISM INTERVENTION; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; QUANTITATIVE METRICS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISEASES; ROBOTICS;

EDUCATION;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; PLAY THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROBOTICS;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOMIMETICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; PLAY THERAPY; ROBOTICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84874961972     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2012.2230188     Document Type: Article

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