Application of the NAO humanoid robot in the treatment of marrow-transplanted children

Csala, E.; Németh, Géza; Zainko, Cs.

doi:10.1109/coginfocom.2012.6421933

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“…Thus, what we see is that there are a range of physical and behavioural competencies, typically inspired directly by human behaviour, that are employed to make robot behaviour more naturalistic within a child-robot interaction context. Given these robot characteristics that can be taken advantage of in child-robot interactions, increasing numbers of studies have assessed how such social robots can achieve some outcome with children, such as in therapy (Salter et al, 2007;Csala et al, 2012;Thill, Pop, Belpaeme, Ziemke, & Vanderborght, 2012), interrogation (Wood et al, 2013), or entertainment (Billard, 2002). The typical application, though, is to assist the child in learning about some topic.…”

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Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

Coninx

Baxter

Oleari³

et al. 2015

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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Social robots have the potential to provide support in a number of practical domains, such as learning and behaviour change. This potential is particularly relevant for children, who have proven receptive to interactions with social robots. To reach learning and therapeutic goals, a number of issues need to be investigated, notably the design of an effective child-robot interaction (cHRI) to ensure the child remains engaged in the relationship and that educational goals are met. Typically, current cHRI research experiments focus on a single type of interaction activity (e.g. a game). However, these can suffer from a lack of adaptation to the child, or from an increasingly repetitive nature of the activity and interaction. In this paper, we motivate and propose a practicable solution to this issue: an adaptive robot able to switch between multiple activities within single interactions. We describe a system that embodies this idea, and present a case study in which diabetic children collaboratively learn with the robot about various aspects of managing their condition. We demonstrate the ability of our system to induce a varied interaction and show the potential of this approach both as an educational tool and as a research method for long-term cHRI.

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“…If in a medical setting, then perhaps stress reduction would be a primary concern (e.g. Csala, Németh, & Zainkó, 2012). However, it is probable that multiple objectives will need to be fulfilled simultaneously, possibly requiring tradeoffs between them.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

Coninx

Baxter

Oleari³

et al. 2015

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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“…Another experiment to test the potencial application of humanoids robots was performed at the Children's Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Unit of Szent László Hospital, in Budapest [9]. Forced to live in a 2x3 m sterile boxes, the robot NAO was a good companion to cheer kids up and to do some exercises.…”

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Attention Based Object Recogniton Applied to a Humanoid Robot

Pinto

Oliveira

Meneghetti

et al. 2014

2014 Joint Conference on Robotics: SBR-LARS Robotics Symposium and Robocontrol

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Abstract-Analysis and recognition of objects in complex scenes is a demanding task for a computer. There is a selection mechanism, named visual attention, that optimizes the visual system, in which only the important parts of the scene are considered at a time. In this work, an object-based visual attention model with both bottom-up and top-down modulation is applied to the humanoid robot NAO to allow a new attention procedure to the robot. This means that the robot, by using its cameras, can recognize geometric figures even with the competition for the attention of all the objects in the image in real time. The proposed method is validated through some tests with 13 to 14 year old kids interacting with the robot NAO that provides some tips (such as the perimeter and area calculation formulas) and recognizes the figure showed by these children. The results are very promissor and show that the proposed approach can contribute for inserting robotics in the educacional context.

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“…Duas dessas crianças não mostraram qualquer efeito com a presença do robô, porém as outras duas prestaram mais atenção ao robô do que ao humano, sendo que uma delas mostrou uma grande interação com o robô. Já em outro teste, feito por [Csala et al 2012], crianças que são forçadas a ficar em pequenas caixas estéreis de 2x3 metros devido a uma cirurgia tiveram respostas bem positivas ao robô NAO, que as animava e convidava para fazer alguns exercícios.…”

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Inserção de um robô humanoide no Ensino de Objetos Geométricos 2D sobrepostos

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Oliveira²,

Benicasa³

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Anais Do XXV Simpósio Brasileiro De Informática Na Educação (SBIE 2014)

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Application of the NAO humanoid robot in the treatment of marrow-transplanted children

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

Attention Based Object Recogniton Applied to a Humanoid Robot

Inserção de um robô humanoide no Ensino de Objetos Geométricos 2D sobrepostos

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