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Engaging Children In Social Behavior: Interaction With a Robot Playmate Through Tablet-based Apps
Engaging Children In Social Behavior: Interaction With a Robot Playmate Through Tablet-based Apps
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Park, Hae Won
Howard, Ayanna M.
Howard, Ayanna M.
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Abstract
There has been an emerging use of touchscreen-based
smart devices, such as the iPad, for assisting in education
and communication interventions for children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD). There has also been growing
evidence of the utilization of robots to foster social
interaction in children with ASD. Unfortunately, although
interventions using the tablet have been successfully
implemented in the home environment, the robotic
platforms have not. One of the reasons is due to the fact that
these robotic platforms are typically not autonomous, i.e.
they are typically controlled directly by the clinician or
through pre-scripted behavior. This makes it difficult for
immersion of such platforms in an environment outside of
the clinical setting. As such, to capitalize on the widespread
ease-of-use of tablet devices and the emerging success
found in the field of social robotics, we present efforts that
focus on designing an autonomous interactive robot that
socially interacts with a child using the tablet as a shared
medium. The purpose is to foster social interaction through
play that is directed by the child, thus moving toward
behavior that can be translated outside of the clinical setting.
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2014
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