Robot skills and cognitive performance of preschool children

Poletz, Linda; Encarnação, Pedro; Adams, Kim; Cook, Al

doi:10.3233/tad-2010-0296

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“…Starting from the skills identified by Forman 29 to control a robot arm (causality, spatial relations, binary logic, coordination of multiple variables, and reflectivity) we identified skills to control a switch-controlled mobile robot (cause and effect, inhibition, laterality, and sequencing). In Forman's and our studies, only older children, 5 years old in our case, mastered the more cognitively complex tasks 30,31 . We also 32 observed if robotic manipulation could enable both functional and pretend play, for typically developing children, aged 3 to 7 years 32 .…”

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confidence: 45%

Will artificial intelligence be a blessing or concern in assistive robots for play?

Adams

Encarnação

Rios-Rincón

et al. 2018

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Os avanços recentes e popularidade da Inteligência Artificial (IA) oferecem possibilidades animadoras para melhorar a tecnologia, mas, também, trazem preocupação. Neste artigo, usamos nossa pesquisa para apresentar os benefícios potenciais do uso da IA em tecnologia assistiva para crianças com deficiências brincarem e examinar possíveis preocupações éticas em torno dos dados exigidos pelos algoritmos de IA. Uma vez que o brincar é um fator chave no bem-estar infantil e no desenvolvimento cognitivo, as incapacidades secundárias podem surgir como consequência de deficiências motoras. Robôs assistivos para manipulação aumentativa podem ser fundamentais para proporcionar às crianças com deficiência física oportunidades de brincar, mas precisamos adotar uma abordagem baseada em princípios e centrada no usuário para inovações técnicas.

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Section: Cognitive Skills Required To Control Robotsmentioning

confidence: 45%

Will artificial intelligence be a blessing or concern in assistive robots for play?

Adams

Encarnação

Rios-Rincón

et al. 2018

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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“…Many standard tests used to measure developmental levels of children do not take into account that some of them may be affected by disabilities, and be faced with physical or further barriers when being tested through them. As a consequence, it is difficult to measure the developmental levels of children with disabilities, who may unfairly under-perform in the tests, giving the impression that they are less cognitively developed than they really are [15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some studies have focused on the opportunities that robots offer to evaluate the cognitive development of children with disabilities. Polletz et al tested the applicability of a Lego Mindstorm robot to measure children's cognitive development by having 18 typically developing children aged 3-5 perform three tasks with the robot [15]. They specifically measured the ages at which typically developing children demonstrate understanding of means end causality, negation, binary relations and sequencing while using switches to control Lego Robots.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The cognitive skills they identified (means end causality, negation, binary relations and sequencing) by performing low motor and linguistic demanding tasks with robots have, according to the authors, direct applicability to assistive technology use in broad scale. Therefore, it is important that these skills get meaningful attention [15].…”

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Use of Robots for Play by Children with Cerebral Palsy

Gardeazabal

Abascal

2019

13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2019‬

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Free play is of great benefit for children's physical and cognitive development, especially for younger ages. However, children with motor restrictions cannot engage in free play like their peers because they face strong challenges to manipulate and interact with their environment. This lack of play opportunities may hinder proper cognitive development, along with several other problems such as decreased social skills or low self-esteem. In recent years several studies have discussed the use of robots to provide children with motor disabilities more opportunities for free play. This paper gives an overview of recent studies regarding the use of robots for play by children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). We also propose a work framework composed by a bi-manual articulated robot to further expand those children's play opportunities.

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“…Cognitive skills that typically developing children demonstrate when they use robots have been studied including: cause and effect, inhibition, laterality, and sequencing (Forman, 1986;Poletz et al, 2010;Encarnac¸a˜o et al, 2014). Poletz et al (2010) and Encarnac¸a˜o et al (2014) found that typically developing children could succeed in robotic tasks if they had developed these cognitive skills. They also found that the performance of children during the tasks varied with age, in line with Forman's work.…”

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Using robots to assess problem-solving skills

Adams

Alvarez

Puyo

et al. 2018

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Introduction: Assistive robots may allow children with physical disabilities to manipulate objects and provide a means to participate in cognitive assessments of problem-solving skills. This study aimed to test the problem-solving skills of typically developing children when using a LEGO Õ robot to solve a reverse sequencing task. Additionally, the study aimed to determine the chronological ages at which typically developing children can effectively solve the levels of difficulty. Method: An experimental crossover study was conducted, where 30 typically developing children aged from 3 to 7 years old were randomly assigned to a first condition (either robot or direct hand manipulation using a toy truck). Results: This pilot study demonstrated that older children outperformed younger children when they used both the truck and the robot, and that the robot was best suited for children over the age of five. Conclusion: Children were able to use the robot to manipulate objects and perform the problem-solving task. A robot may be an alternative assessment tool to identify problem-solving skills for children with disabilities. A larger sample size is required to build a database of results when typically developing children use robots, to gauge the level of understanding of children with disabilities.

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Robot skills and cognitive performance of preschool children

Cited by 32 publications

References 14 publications

Will artificial intelligence be a blessing or concern in assistive robots for play?

Will artificial intelligence be a blessing or concern in assistive robots for play?

Use of Robots for Play by Children with Cerebral Palsy

Using robots to assess problem-solving skills

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