Toward Robot-Assisted Psychosocial Techniques for Sound Stimulation of Children Born with Hearing Loss

Lekova, Anna; Tsvetkova, Paulina

doi:10.1109/infotech52438.2021.9548417

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“…As an instance, researchers have successfully integrated OpenAI's text completion services, including GPT-3 and ChatGPT, into the Furhat robot, so that real-time, non-scripted, automated interactions can be provided [67]. Furthermore, different frameworks based on cloud computing and clustering are employed to enhance the capabilities of social robots and address the limitations of existing embedded platforms [68][69][70]. The papers present approaches which enhance the capabilities of social robots via NLP cloud services.…”

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“…Graphical interfaces are great support for a robot interaction by listing complex information, allowing text input or showing a game interface. Many SARs provide GUI touch by their own tablet [54] or external touchscreen [16,18,75,76]. Usually, the GUI is used to acquire and repeat knowledge by pictures displayed on a touch screen connected to the SAR.…”

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“…SARs are able to initiate and support communication and enrich child's vocabulary. They also help therapists train and assess linguistic capabilities of children and adolescents with language impairments[6][7][8]13,[15][16][17]23,32,35,38,39,[41][42][43][44][45][47][48][49][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]62].•Articulation therapy: Social robots can help children with speech disorders practice pronunciation and articulation exercises. The youngsters are observed to show increased verbal production and participation via SARs.…”

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Exploring the Potential of Social Robots for Speech and Language Therapy: A Review and Analysis of Interactive Scenarios

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The use of innovative technology in the field of Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) has gained significant attention nowadays. Despite being a promising research area, Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have not been thoroughly studied and used in SLT. This paper makes two main contributions: firstly, providing a comprehensive review of existing research on the use of SARs to enhance communication skills in children and adolescents. Secondly, organizing the information into tables that categorize the interactive play scenarios described in the surveyed papers. The inclusion criteria for play scenarios in the tables are based only on their effectiveness for SLT proven by experimental findings. The data, systematically presented in a table format, allow readers to easily find relevant information based on various factors, such as disorder type, age, treatment technique, robot type, etc. The study concludes that the despite limited research on the use of social robots for children and adolescents with communication disorders (CD), promising outcomes have been reported. The authors discuss the methodological, technical, and ethical limitations related to the use of SARs for SLT in clinical or home environments, as well as the huge potential of conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a secondary assistive technology to facilitate speech and language interventions.

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