V. Robles-Bykbaev, Mario Ochoa-Guaraca, Marco Carpio-Moreta, Daniel Pulla-Sánchez, L. Serpa-Andrade, M. López-Nores, J. García-Duque
{"title":"Robotic assistant for support in speech therapy for children with cerebral palsy","authors":"V. Robles-Bykbaev, Mario Ochoa-Guaraca, Marco Carpio-Moreta, Daniel Pulla-Sánchez, L. Serpa-Andrade, M. López-Nores, J. García-Duque","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC.2016.7830603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC.2016.7830603","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays the World Health Organization (WHO) claims that one billion persons live in the world with some form of disability. From this group, an important number of children with disabilities and communication disorders do not have access to adequate services for special education or health care. In this point, it is important to mention that language and communication are mainstays in the development of several intellectual, social, and cognitive human skills. Therefore, in this paper we present a low-cost robotic assistant that is able to provide support for several activities that must be carried during the speech-language therapy sessions of children with different kinds of disabilities. This assistant is able to register patient's information (personal and clinical data), the results of therapy sessions, and provide remote support to conduct reinforcement activities at patient's home (using mobile devices). With the aim of determining the real feasibility of our system, we have carried out a pilot experiment in 73 therapy sessions with 29 children with disabilities (15 received traditional therapy and 14 received therapy with the assistance of the robot). The results show a rapid adaptation of children to the new tool and good results in phonological, morphosyntactical, and semantic areas.","PeriodicalId":166098,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129631965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent assistant to control home power network","authors":"Julio Cabrera, M. Mena, Ana Parra, Eduardo Pinos","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC.2016.7830531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC.2016.7830531","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of new technologies, which are able to connect with each other through network, the Internet of things (IoT), raised its popularity. This paper describes the implementation and configuration of an intelligent assistant for a domotic controller, which allows the user to control, remotely, the entire house using voice commands, a handle control is implemented for auxiliary conditions. This project also seeks to improve home safety by the implementation of an IP camera for video surveillance and sensors, all this system will be available to the user via any android device, giving access to their smart house from any place around the world. Moreover, the development of this intelligent house assistant is made with a low budget.","PeriodicalId":166098,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116978038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}