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Authors:
Ben Robins
Farshid Amirabdollahian
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Keywords: assistive technology; human-robot interaction; autism therapy; robot assisted therapy.
Abstract:
The work presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the ROBOSKIN project. One key research activity in the project was to explore tactile interactions of children with autism with the humanoid robot KASPAR in order to develop methods and mechanism to support robot-assisted therapy for children with autism. This article presents a detailed taxonomical classification of tactile interactions of 14 children with autism with the humanoid robot KASPAR. Our quantitative analysis confirms results from the literature highlighting the great variety of autistic children’s interaction capabilities.
Pages: 89 to 94
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013
Publication date: February 24, 2013
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4138
ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013