Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Long-Term In-Home Use for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Assisted Robots in Therapies for Children with Autism in Early Childhood

“…The most relevant information on the articles studied for this review can be found in Table 2 , where the author, the type of article, the sample, the intervention, the type of scale used, and the results of each work are indicated. There are six study cases [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ], two pilot studies [ 16 , 17 ], and one randomised controlled trial (RCT) [ 50 ]. In these papers, the number of subjects included was 186, of which 27 were known to be female.…”

“…Of the studies reviewed, 55.56% showed high quality (≥6 points), while 44.44% had a low level (4–5 points considered acceptable). Some of the articles reviewed that met all inclusion criteria but scored less than four points on the PEDRo scale were [ 11 , 33 , 39 ], which were left out of this review due to the lack of methodological quality.…”

“…Various studies use this kind of therapy, such as Wainer et al [ 52 ], where players faced each other during each session, and to play the video game cooperatively on the horizontal screen, players had to synchronise and coordinate their actions properly; the game did not register the actions of a single player if they were not performed at the same time and in the same way as those of the other player [ 11 ].…”

“…(10) Results of statistical comparisons between groups were reported for at least one key outcome. (11) The study provides point and variability measures for at least one key outcome.…”

“…In the field of robot-assisted intervention development, refs. [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ] address the need for personalised interventions. From attention assessment to influencing gaze and joint attention, these authors seek to provide long-term therapies in home environments.…”