Comparing two LEGO Robotics-based interventions for social skills training with children with ASD

Albó-Canals, Jordi; Heerink, Marcel; Díaz, Marta; Padillo, Vanesa; Maristany, Marta; Barco, Àlex; Ángulo, Cecilio; Riccio, Ariana; Brodsky, Lauren; Dufresne, Simone; Heilbron, Samuel; Milto, Elissa; Choueiri, Roula; Hannon, Daniel; Rogers, Chris

doi:10.1109/roman.2013.6628420

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“…Additionally, soft skills like creativity, collaboration, communication, autonomy, and overcoming failure can benefit from didactic units with robotic platforms [ 7 , 8 ]. Further STEAM-related benefits such as cooperative learning and the development of projects that design solutions to social problems can be acquired through educational robotic activities [ 9 ]. Therefore, it is crucial that educational robotics forms part of the landscape of educational tools and methodologies in schools and become a key element in the union and articulation of interdisciplinary learning.…”

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Social STEAM Learning at an Early Age with Robotic Platforms: A Case Study in Four Schools in Spain

Jurado

Fonseca

Coderch

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Robotics is one of the key learnings in a world where learners will interact with multiple robotic technologies and operating systems throughout their lives. However, school teachers, especially in the elementary and primary education stages, often have difficulties incorporating these tools in the classroom. Four elementary teachers in three schools in Catalonia were trained to introduce robotics in the classroom to seventy-five students. The main actions consisted in classroom accompaniment by a university-trained support teacher, curricular materials’ development, and assessment of the students’ and teachers’ learning. The designed contents and evaluation criteria took into account the potential of educational robotics to improve soft skills and to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) interdisciplinary learning. Teachers perceived the training to be supportive and useful and ended the school year feeling confident with the used robotic platform (KIBO). The assessment of the students’ learning showed an average mark of 7.1–7.7 over 10 in the final evaluation criteria. Moreover, students’ learning was higher in the classes where the teachers had higher initial interest in the training. We present and analyse the actions carried out, with a critical and constructive look at extending the experience to other educational centers.

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Social STEAM Learning at an Early Age with Robotic Platforms: A Case Study in Four Schools in Spain

Jurado

Fonseca

Coderch

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“…Our proposal to follow up the project is to integrate Faciometric Software into the server [5]. In Previous studies like in [6], we proposed surveys to obtain direct information from the students at the end of the session. That worked but it took a lot of time and some kids were not really focused on that.…”

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A Cloud Robotic System based on Robot Companions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Perform Evaluations during LEGO Engineering Workshops

Albó-Canals

Feerst

Cordoba

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Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

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In this paper, we propose a non-invasive way to measure the level of anxiety and stress of participants in the Autism Spectrum Disorders without using wearable devices. This measurement is done through a robot companion, which will log children behavior during children's social skills training sessions based on building LEGO Robotics. All this data can be uploaded to a cloud system for future comparison and research. The work presented is the validation of the technology proposed and the session's layout.

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“…LEGO engineering creates a context where social and problem-solving skills meet each other. This has been found extremely positive for children with neurodevelopmental disorders [51][52][53]. It seems that making the robot behavior depend on user actions is positive in robot therapies because it involves the motivation of the user [54].…”

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Implications of the Google’s US 8,996,429 B1 Patent in Cloud Robotics-Based Therapeutic Researches

Fosch‐Villaronga¹,

Albó-Canals²

2018

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Intended for being informative to both legal and engineer communities, this chapter raises awareness on the implications of recent patents in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. Google patented the use of cloud robotics to create robot personality(-ies). The broad claims of the patent could hamper many HRI research projects in the field. One of the possible frustrated research lines is related to robotic therapies because the personalization of the robot accelerates the process of engagement, which is extremely beneficial for robotic cognitive therapies. This chapter presents, therefore, the scientific examination, description, and comparison of the Tufts University CEEO project "Data Analysis and Collection through Robotic Companions and LEGO ® Engineering with Children on the Autism Spectrum project" and the US 8,996,429 B1 Patent on the Methods and Systems for Robot Personality Development of Google. Some remarks on ethical implications of the patent will close the chapter and open the discussion to both communities.

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Comparing two LEGO Robotics-based interventions for social skills training with children with ASD

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Social STEAM Learning at an Early Age with Robotic Platforms: A Case Study in Four Schools in Spain

Social STEAM Learning at an Early Age with Robotic Platforms: A Case Study in Four Schools in Spain

A Cloud Robotic System based on Robot Companions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Perform Evaluations during LEGO Engineering Workshops

Implications of the Google’s US 8,996,429 B1 Patent in Cloud Robotics-Based Therapeutic Researches

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