A storytelling robot for pediatric rehabilitation

Plaisant, Catherine; Druin, Allison; Lathan, Corinna; Dakhane, Kapil; Edwards, Kris; Vice, Jack; Montemayor, Jaime

doi:10.1145/354324.354338

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“…Depending on the games, the robots will help the users to develop and improve their abilities. In [8], [14] a remote-controlled furry robot is used to guide the therapy of disabled children. The robot is controlled by sensors, adjusted on the body of the child.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maggie: A Social Robot as a Gaming Platform

González-Pacheco

Ramey

Alonso-Martín

et al. 2011

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Edutainment robots are robots designed to participate in people's education and in their entertainment. One of the tasks of edutainment robots is to play with their human partners, but most of them offer a limited pool of games. Moreover, it is difficult to add new games to them. This lack of flexibility could shorten their life cycle. This paper presents a social robot on which several robotic games have been developed. Our robot uses a flexible and modular architecture that allows the creation of new skills by the composition of existing and simpler skills. With this architecture, the development of a new game mainly consists in the composition of the skills that are needed for this specific game. In this paper, we present the robot, its hardware and its software architecture, including its interaction capabilities. We also provide a detailed description of the development of five of the games the robot can play.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maggie: A Social Robot as a Gaming Platform

González-Pacheco

Ramey

Alonso-Martín

et al. 2011

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…The Robota project is part of a current trend of robotics research that develops educational and interactive toys for children with disabilities; see, e.g. [16], [17], [15]. As mentioned in introduction, the use of the robot Robota as part of studies with children with autism sets a number of constraints on its design, which we list below:…”

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Design of a biomimetic upper body for the humanoid robot robota

Guenter

Roos

Guignard

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5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005.

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Abstract-This paper presents the current prototype of dollshaped humanoid robot Robota. The use of the robot Robota as part of studies with disabled children sets a number of constraints on its design. In particular, it requires that the robot bears a human likeness both in its body features and in the kinematics of its motions. In this paper, we present the design of a 23 degrees of freedom upper body for Robota, including a 3 DOFs spine, two 7 DOFs arm, a 3 DOFs pair of eyes and a 3 DOFs neck.

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“…The Robota project is part of a current trend of robotics research that develops educational and interactive toys for children with disabilities; see, e.g. [8]. The Robota project started in 1997 with the first prototype.…”

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confidence: 99%

Development of a miniature pair of eyes with camera for the humanoid robot Robota

Pongas¹,

Guenter²,

GuIgard

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4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2004.

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A growing trend in humanoid robotics tend at reducing the size of humanoids in order to lower their building costs. While growing small has its advantages, it also has drawbacks. In particular, providing miniature humanoids with the same sensorimotor capabilities as their grown-up peers is a challenge, both in terms of mechanics, electronics and control. The Robota project creates humanoids, whose size should match that of a commercial doll, so that they can be used as part of experiments with autistic children. Because these experiments measure the child's ability to socially interact with others, it is fundamental to provide the robot with sensory capabilities, such as speech and vision, that are at the basis of these interactions. This paper presents the creation of a miniature pair of mobile eyes, mounted with miniature cameras to provide Robota with binocular and mobile vision. The system allows the robot to blink, to direct its gaze toward or away from its user and to track the user's face.

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A storytelling robot for pediatric rehabilitation

Cited by 97 publications

References 7 publications

Maggie: A Social Robot as a Gaming Platform

Maggie: A Social Robot as a Gaming Platform

Design of a biomimetic upper body for the humanoid robot robota

Development of a miniature pair of eyes with camera for the humanoid robot Robota

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