Design of affective robot-assisted activity for children with autism spectrum disorders

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Pub Date : 2014-10-20 DOI:10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926280

Masakazu Hirokawa, A. Funahashi, Yasushi Itoh, Kenji Suzuki

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Recent studies on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have reported that positive emotions can be a good incentive for children with ASD to perform spontaneous positive social behaviors. Based on this findings, we propose an affective robot-assisted activity (ARAA) for fostering social interaction and communication skills among children with ASD by promoting their positive emotional responses through interaction with a robot. As it has been termed spectrum, every child has different social and affective characteristics that should be taken into account. However, due to difficulties in programming the robot's behavior, conventional RAA systems did not allow the therapist to customize the activity according to the characteristics of each individual. To tackle this problem, we developed a comprehensive framework of ARAA that consists of (i) a robot tele-operation method that allows a therapist to improvise a robot's behavior in real-time and (ii) a quantitative measurement method to describe social interaction within both behavioral and affective aspects.

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自闭症谱系障碍儿童情感机器人辅助活动的设计

最近对自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)的研究表明，积极情绪可以很好地激励ASD儿童自发地进行积极的社会行为。基于这一发现，我们提出了一种情感机器人辅助活动(ARAA)，通过与机器人互动来促进自闭症儿童的积极情绪反应，从而培养他们的社会互动和沟通技能。正如它被称为谱系，每个孩子都有不同的社会和情感特征，这些特征应该被考虑在内。然而，由于难以对机器人的行为进行编程，传统的RAA系统不允许治疗师根据每个个体的特征定制活动。为了解决这个问题，我们开发了一个全面的ARAA框架，其中包括(i)一个机器人远程操作方法，允许治疗师实时即兴创作机器人的行为;(ii)一个定量测量方法，描述行为和情感方面的社会互动。

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