Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Andrea Maieli, Elisabetta Miraglio, Giulia Ricciardiello, Rossana Damiano, Alessandro Mazzei
This position paper introduces the results of an initial card sorting experiment based on the reactions and questions of a group of children with autism working with a humanoid robot in a therapeutic laboratory on autonomy.
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For a period of three weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school, with a focus on supporting the well-being of autistic children. Our methodology to design and embed the robot among this vulnerable population follows a comprehensive participatory approach. We used the research project as a test-bed to demonstrate in a complex real-world environment the importance and suitability of the nine UNICEF guidelines on AI for Children. The UNICEF guidelines on AI for Children closely align with several of the UN goals for sustainable de…
Preliminary results of a therapeutic lab for promoting autonomies in autistic children
本研究介绍了由多学科团队主导的Pepper机器人治疗实验室的初步定性结果，该实验室针对4名11-13岁高功能自闭症儿童开展了为期四个月的每周一次的干预，以提升其自主性与功能性技能。
This paper introduces the project Social Assistive Robotics for Autistic Children aimed at using robotic therapy for autism. The goal of the project is testing autistic children's interactions with the social robot NAO. In particular the robot will support the operators (psychologists, educators, speech therapists etc.) in their work. The innovative aspect of the project is that the children robot interaction will consider the children's emotions and specific features and the robot will adapt its behavior accordingly.
Using the power of memes: The Pepper Robot as a communicative facilitator for autistic children (cAESAR2023 workshop)
本文通过为期四个月的Pepper机器人治疗实验室，对4名低支持需求自闭症儿童进行定性评估，探索机器人促进社交沟通技能发展的有效性及改进策略。
Robot-assisted therapy is an emerging form of therapy for autistic children, although designing effective robot behaviors is a challenge for effective implementation of such therapy. A series of usability tests assessed trends in the effectiveness of modelling a robot's facial expressions on realistic facial expressions and of adding peripherals enabling child-led control of emotion learning activities with autistic children. Nineteen autistic children interacted with a small humanoid robot and an adult therapist in several emotion-learning activities that featured realistic facial expressions…
Extending 3D body pose estimation for robotic-assistive therapies of autistic children
针对自闭症儿童机器人辅助治疗中的姿态估计问题，通过改进现有3D人体建模方法并引入线性回归模型微调输入，开发出适用于儿童的3D姿态估计器，误差低于0.3m，在真实场景中帧估计成功率优于现有方法。
How Age Influences the Interpretation of Emotional Body Language in Humanoid Robots -- long paper version
本文通过实证比较儿童、青年与老年人对 NAO 情绪性肢体语言的解读，揭示不同年龄群体在感知机器人情绪线索上的异同。
Application of humanoid robots has been common in the field of healthcare and education. It has been recurrently used to improve social behavior and mollify distress level among children with autism, cancer and cerebral palsy. This article discusses the same from a human factors perspective. It shows how people of different age and gender have a different opinion towards the application and acceptance of humanoid robots. Additionally, this article highlights the influence of cerebral condition and social interaction on a user behavior and attitude towards humanoid robots. Our study performed a…
This paper introduces an experimental trial that will take place from February to June 2021, and which will see the use of the Pepper robot in a therapeutic laboratory on autonomies that will promote functional acquisitions in children diagnosed with high functioning autism/Asperger's syndrome.
Designing Social Robots for Social-Cognition Training with Autistic Adults
该研究针对现有自闭症干预机器人多聚焦儿童的问题，联合5名自闭症成人开展共同设计，明确了用于社会认知训练的社交机器人的7项核心设计要求，提出其应作为私人可配置的演练伙伴以支持自闭症成人的独立性。
THRIVE: Therapeutic Humanoid Robot In Virtual Environment
本文提出了家用康复平台THRIVE，集成VR上肢康复游戏、摄像头运动追踪与机器人治疗师，采用模块化设计，为上肢运动障碍儿童提供持续且具吸引力的上肢治疗。
Advancing Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy: A Novel Algorithm for Enhancing Joint Attention Interventions
本文综述社交机器人用于自闭症共同注意干预的研究，比较两类提示与奖励形式模型，并提出整合环境交互因素的新型自适应算法。
A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism During NAO Robot-Mediated Interaction
本文提出了一种混合深度学习框架，用于识别自闭症儿童在NAO机器人互动中的情绪，通过结合CNN和GCN，利用大规模数据集提升情绪识别的准确性与实用性。
A Gamified Interaction with a Humanoid Robot to explain Therapeutic Procedures in Pediatric Asthma
针对儿童哮喘患者治疗依从性差的问题，提出基于Pepper人形机器人的游戏化交互教育模块，原计划开展临床研究验证其对吸入操作学习和依从性的提升效果，研究因疫情取消。
A key challenge in developing engaging social robots is creating convincing, autonomous and responsive agents, which users perceive, and treat, as social beings. As a part of the collaborative project: Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning (EASEL), this study examines the impact of autonomous response to children's speech, by the humanoid robot Zeno, on their interactions with it as a social entity. Results indicate that robot autonomy and adult assistance during HRI can substantially influence children's behaviour during interaction and their affect after. Children working wi…
This study presents novel strategies to investigate the mutual influence of trust and group dynamics in children-robot interaction. We implemented a game-like experimental activity with the humanoid robot iCub and designed a questionnaire to assess how the children perceived the interaction. We also aim to verify if the sensors, setups, and tasks are suitable for studying such aspects. The questionnaires' results demonstrate that youths perceive iCub as a friend and, typically, in a positive way. Other preliminary results suggest that, generally, children trusted iCub during the activity and, …
In this paper we introduce the core results of the project on software development for social robotics systems. The usability of maintenance and control features is crucial for many kinds of systems, but in the case of social robotics we also have to take into account that (1) the humanoid robot physically interacts with humans, (2) the conversation with children might have different requirements in comparison to the conversation with adults. The results of our work were implement for the humanoid PAL REEM robot, but their core ideas can be applied for other types of humanoid robots. We develo…
Human vs. NAO: A Computational-Behavioral Framework for Quantifying Social Orienting in Autism and Typical Development
研究通过比较人类和NAO机器人对名字的反应，探讨社会定向能力差异，分析眼接触、延迟、头部和面部方向变化等行为参数，以提升自闭症评估工具的理论和应用发展。
Symphony: A Heuristic Normalized Calibrated Advantage Actor and Critic Algorithm in application for Humanoid Robots
Symphony算法通过规范化校准和安全动作策略，提升双足机器人从零开始的学习效率和安全性。
Surprising Performances of Students with Autism in Classroom with NAO Robot
本研究通过NAO机器人辅助的集体课堂实验，发现自闭症谱系障碍学生在机器人课堂中表现出更高的参与度和更少的刻板行为，表明社交机器人能显著提升其课堂专注力和教育表现。
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