Robot Assistance in Playful Environment - User Trials and Results

Kronreif, Gernot; Kornfeld, Martin; Prazak, Barbara; Mina, Stefan; Fürst, Martin

doi:10.1109/robot.2007.363911

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“…Children with disabilities used a robot workstation based on the low-cost commercial SCARA robot for stacking and knocking down toy bricks, sorting articles, and playing the Tower of Hanoi game [9]. In the PlayROB project [12], a dedicated robot system which supports children with severe physical impairments in their interaction with standard toys was developed. A first set of trials was conducted with three able-bodied children (between 5 and 7 yrs old) and three disabled children (between 9 and 11 yrs old).…”

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“…Results showed that children were able to progressively master the robot, playing autonomously with high concentration and enjoyment, even for long periods of time. Additionally, improvement on child's spatial perception was reported [12]. There is an ongoing Playbot project, aimed at building a robotic system for assistive play using vision as the primary sensor [1,21].…”

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Robot skills and cognitive performance of preschool children

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Several studies have demonstrated the potential of robots as assistive tools for play activities. Through the use of robots, children with motor impairments may be able to manipulate objects and engage in play activities as their typically developing peers, thus having the same opportunities to learn cognitive, social, motor and linguistic skills. Robot use can also provide a proxy measure of disabled children's cognitive abilities by comparing their performance with that of typically developing children. This paper reports a study with eighteen typically developing children aged three, four and five years to assess at which ages the cognitive concepts of causality, negation, binary logic, and sequencing are demonstrated during Lego robot use.

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Robot skills and cognitive performance of preschool children

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“…Researchers also observed children while they were playing in order to gather insights about those children's needs. Kronreif [13] and colleagues interviewed therapists and parents of children with disabilities during the process of designing the PlayROB system, a robot that assists children with motor impairment with playing with Lego™ bricks. None of these studies developed user requirements from a child's perspective by asking children about what they would like to find in a robot for playing with.…”

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Children’s Imaginaries of Robots for Playing With

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Int J of Soc Robotics

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Children with severe motor impairment due to cerebral palsy have difficulties engaging in play, although they want to play games that typically developing children play. The barriers imposed by motor impairments against engaging in play can be addressed through the use of robots. We aim to identify how children, who have extensive experience of play, imagine what a robot is and what features would make a robot good to play with. Using a qualitative description design, 19 children from urban and rural settings participated in focus groups to draw and talk about the robots they would like to exist. The data were coded and analyzed using a summative approach to content analysis. The findings revealed that the children imagined that a good robot to play with is one that has an anthropomorphic appearance, is tough and strong, has controls, and that is able to move, grab, speak, and play popular children’s games. In particular, the girls imagined that robots should be able to express positive emotions towards children. Age, gender, culture, and the physical environment in which the children lived influenced what they expected to find in a robot for playing with and how they imagined child–robot interactions.

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“…Assistive robots have been used for people with disabilities [23][24][25][26] and children with disabilities in the context of education [27][28][29] and play 30,31 to compensate for their physical limitations and facilitate their object manipulation. However, typical assistive robot interfaces do not transfer the objects' touch-related properties to the user, and as a result children miss some environmental information.…”

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Haptics to improve task performance in people with disabilities: A review of previous studies and a guide to future research with children with disabilities

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Tavakoli

2016

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineerin

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This review examines the studies most pertinent to the potential of haptics on the functionality of assistive robots in manipulation tasks for use by children with disabilities. Haptics is the fast-emerging science that studies the sense of touch concerning the interaction of a human and his/her environment; this paper particularly studies the human–machine interaction that happens through a haptic interface to enable touch feedback. Haptics-enabled user interfaces for assistive robots can potentially benefit children whose haptic exploration is impaired due to a disability in their infancy and throughout their childhood. A haptic interface can provide touch feedback and potentially contribute to an enhancement in perception of objects and overall ability to perform manipulation tasks. The intention of this paper is to review the research on the applications of haptics, exclusively focusing on attributes affecting task performance. A review of studies will give a retrospective insight into previous research with various disability populations, and inform potential limitations/challenges in research regarding haptic interfaces for assistive robots for use by children with disabilities.

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Robot Assistance in Playful Environment - User Trials and Results

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Robot skills and cognitive performance of preschool children

Robot skills and cognitive performance of preschool children

Children’s Imaginaries of Robots for Playing With

Haptics to improve task performance in people with disabilities: A review of previous studies and a guide to future research with children with disabilities

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