論文

査読有り
2012年

Design of a therapeutic robot for interacting with autistic children through interpersonal touch

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
  • J. Lee
  • ,
  • H. Takehashi
  • ,
  • C. Nagai
  • ,
  • G. Obinata

開始ページ
712
終了ページ
717
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
DOI
10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343835

Previous researches, in the field of robot assisted therapy, suggested that communications with robots encourage autistic children to have more positive reaction to the robots' behavior, and this seems to be a reliable approach to improve the social interaction and communication skills of autistic children. However, most of the researches focused on improving only some limited aspects of the autistic children's social communication problems and it is difficult to evaluate the training with current technology. Thus, in the present study, we suggest a training robot to improve the adjustability of autistic children's way of communications through touching. First, we explore three different ways of touching and compare different force levels of touching for autistic children to those for non-autistic children. As a result, non-autistic children have shown a definite pattern on the way of touching, while there is no pattern in autistic children's one. Second, we investigate the efficiency of therapy with the robot, when the robot shows its expression to a person with autism. As a result, the participant has indicated that better success rate with the presence of expression from robot. © 2012 IEEE.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343835
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343835
  • SCOPUS ID : 84870843052

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