Robot-based therapeutic protocol for training children with Autism

Mavadati, S. Mohammad; Feng, Haunghao; Salvador, Michelle J.; Silver, Sophia; Gutierrez, Anibal; Mahoor, Mohammad H.

doi:10.1109/roman.2016.7745219

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“…[ [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58] Pepper Android Humanoid (height = 1.21 m and width = 0.48 m). It has almost the same articulations than a human, except for its mobile base and the impossibility of moving every finger independently.…”

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“…In [58], the researchers propose the use of the Nao robot to maintain conversations with children with autism and automatically extract crucial information on their interests to recommend them picture books. In [57], the authors propose a conversational therapy using a Nao robot that encourages the child to talk about their experiences and help them to recognize objects and imitate facial expressions. As a different approach, in [62], the authors use a Pepper robot to teach people with typical development to communicate with people with autism spectrum disorder.…”

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Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

2020

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Over one billion people in the world suffer from some form of disability. Nevertheless, according to the World Health Organization, people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to deficiencies in services, such as health care, rehabilitation, support, and assistance. In this sense, recent technological developments can mitigate these deficiencies, offering less-expensive assistive systems to meet users’ needs. This paper reviews and summarizes the research efforts toward the development of these kinds of systems, focusing on two social groups: older adults and children with autism.

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Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

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“…Humanoid robot Nao from Aldebaran Robotics Company is one of the most popular robots used in autism studies [85,[92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99]. Nao is a child-sized robot with plastic body (58 cm tall and 4.3 kg weight).…”

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Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

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Abstract:The rapid development of computer and robotic technologies in the last decade is giving hope to perform earlier and more accurate diagnoses of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and more effective, consistent, and cost-conscious treatment. Besides the reduced cost, the main benefit of using technology to facilitate treatment is that stimuli produced during each session of the treatment can be controlled, which not only guarantees consistency across different sessions, but also makes it possible to focus on a single phenomenon, which is difficult even for a trained professional to perform, and deliver the stimuli according to the treatment plan. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of research on recent technology-facilitated diagnosis and treat of children and adults with ASD. Different from existing reviews on this topic, which predominantly concern clinical issues, we focus on the engineering perspective of autism studies. All technology facilitated systems used for autism studies can be modeled as human machine interactive systems where one or more participants would constitute as the human component, and a computer-based or a robotic-based system would be the machine component. Based on this model, we organize our review with the following questions: (1) What are presented to the participants in the studies and how are the content and delivery methods enabled by technologies? (2) How are the reactions/inputs collected from the participants in response to the stimuli in the studies? (3) Are the experimental procedure and programs presented to participants dynamically adjustable based on the responses from the participants, and if so, how? and (4) How are the programs assessed?

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“…According to Tariq et al (2016) and Yun et al (2016), the use of robots favors the teaching of children's social skills, and their use has been greatly explored. In the study of Mavadati et al (2016), the interactions involve imitation of the robot's gestures such as raising a hand, touching the head, raising both hands, or touching the knee. They also included dialog with the robot through its operator.…”

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A review of the use of computational technology in applied behavior analysis

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Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a behavioral science that aims to teach specific and socially relevant behaviors to people with different repertoires. Technology can aid behavior analysis interventions supporting different educational agents (e.g. psychologists, parents, and teachers) as well as patients. In this article, we reviewed how researchers are using technology in ABA interventions with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We present the results obtained from a systematic review of the literature. The purpose was to map the employment of the computational technology in ABA interventions, as well as to discuss the primary technologies used, their benefits, and their limitations. Based on our review, we noticed that technology-based interventions are in the early stages of development. We evidenced it by the methodological limitations in many of the studies we found, and the relatively simplistic nature of many of the technological applications (e.g. inability to customize the software to meet individual learner needs). We also provide suggestions, based on these findings, for how researchers may advance the studies in this area to improve the lives of children with ASD and their families.

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Robot-based therapeutic protocol for training children with Autism

Cited by 26 publications

References 12 publications

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

A review of the use of computational technology in applied behavior analysis

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