Detailed requirements for robots in autism therapy

Giullian, Nicole; Ricks, Daniel; Atherton, Alan; Colton, Mark B.; Goodrich, Michael A.; Brinton, Bonnie

doi:10.1109/icsmc.2010.5641908

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“…The robot could be controlled from another room by some collaborator (i.e., the user) (Giullian et al, 2010). However, given the large degrees of freedom of the robot and the difficulty with providing the user with high SA and telepresence, manual teleoperation of the robot would be quite difficult.…”

Section: Problem Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, as is the case throughout much of the world, the use of robots in health care (e.g. autism therapy (Giullian et al, 2010;Kozima, Nakagawa, & Yasuda, 2005;Robins, Dautenhahn, te Boekhorst, & Billard, 2004;Robins, Dautenhahn, & Dickerson, 2009;Scassellati, 2009)) is likely to become prominent in GCC countries.…”

Section: Tasks To Performmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For some years now, robotic systems have been considered a potentially useful tool for use in therapy for children with autism (Giullian et al, 2010;Kozima et al, 2005;Robins et al, 2004Robins et al, , 2009Scassellati, 2009). Despite much progress, the use of robotics in autism therapy is severely limited by the fact that therapists typically have trouble making robots work, and roboticists typically do not have a sound understanding of autism.…”

Section: Problem Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In our scenario, a humanoid Nao robot must interact with an autistic child and other caretakers (Giullian et al, 2010) in a discussion about images on a wall. For example, the child might be asked to count all of the red circles on the wall shown in Figure 6.…”

Section: Problem Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But manual teleoperation is often extremely difficult due to the complexity of the robot and difficulties with supplying the user with sufficient telepresence (Schloerb, 1995). Alternatively, robot systems can be created in which users can create their own robot autonomy via learning from demonstration (Argall, Chernova, Veloso, & Browning, 2009), scripting (Giullian et al, 2010), motion tracking (Atherton & Goodrich, 2011), or some other method. However, reliance…”

Section: Tasks To Performmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remote teleoperation of advanced, semi-autonomous robotic technologies has great potential in many industries critical to the economy and for the environment of the Middle East. Applications include maintenance of under-water oil wells, maintenance of nuclear power plants, counter-terrorism and national defense, law enforcement, remote sensing, and health care. In each of these applications, a user, likely without technology expertise, must operate a complex robot in uncertain and unknown environments. The nature of the tasks and environments encountered by the robot in these applications make it highly likely that the robot's limited autonomy will fail or be insufficient to complete the desired task. In this paper, we argue that, in such scenarios, cognitive telepresence, defined as the ability of the user to comprehend and control the robot's cognition, is an important design principle for human-robot systems. We compare and contrast cognitive telepresence to existing design principles commonly discussed in the literature, and define various metrics of cognitive telepresence. Finally, via two illustrative examples and a user study, we demonstrate the usefulness of cognitive telepresence as an important design principle of human-robot systems consisting of a user with limited technology expertise and a robot with limited and error-prone artificial intelligence.

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confidence: 99%