Social Assistive Robotics for Autistic Children
This addresses the challenge of enhancing therapeutic interventions for autistic children, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing robotic therapy concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of supporting therapy for autistic children by introducing a social assistive robot (NAO) that adapts its behavior based on children's emotions and specific features, with the result being a project aimed at testing these interactions to assist operators like psychologists.
This paper introduces the project Social Assistive Robotics for Autistic Children aimed at using robotic therapy for autism. The goal of the project is testing autistic children's interactions with the social robot NAO. In particular the robot will support the operators (psychologists, educators, speech therapists etc.) in their work. The innovative aspect of the project is that the children robot interaction will consider the children's emotions and specific features and the robot will adapt its behavior accordingly.