From Isolation to Communication:: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot

Ben Robins; Kerstin Dautenhahn; Paul Dickerson

doi:10.1109/ACHI.2009.32

From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot

Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson

School of Psychology

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Abstract

The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project that studies ways in which robotic systems can encourage basic communication and social interaction skills in children with autism. This paper investigates how a small minimally expressive humanoid robot KASPAR can assume the role of a social mediator - encouraging children with low functioning autism to interact with the robot, to break their isolation and importantly, to facilitate interaction with other people. The article provides a case study evaluation of segments of trials where three children with autism, who usually do not interact with other people in their day to day activity, interacted with the robot and with co-present adults. A preliminary observational analysis was undertaken which applied, in abbreviated form, certain principles from …

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press
Pages	205-211
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-3351-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACHI.2009.32 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACHI.2009.32
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2009

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