Multisensory robotic therapy to promote natural emotional interaction for children with ASD

Authors

Rachel Bevill, George Washington University
Paul Azzi, George Washington University
Matthew Spadafora, George Washington University
Chung Hyuk Park, George Washington University
Hyung Jung Kim
JongWon Lee, Samsung Electronics
Kazi Raihan, New York Institute of Technology
Myounghoon Jeon, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow
Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Children with autism have a hard time both with expressing their emotions, and with understanding the emotions of others. As the population of children with autism increases, it is crucial we create effective therapeutic programs that will improve their communication skills. We present an interactive robotic system that delivers emotional and social behaviors for multi-sensory therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders. Our framework includes emotion-based robotic gestures and facial expressions, as well as vision and audio-based monitoring system for quantitative measurement of the interaction.

Publisher's Statement

IEEE Press Piscataway, NJ, USA ©2016 . Publisher's version of record: https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451861

Publication Title

The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction

Recommended Citation

Bevill, R., Azzi, P., Spadafora, M., Park, C. H., Kim, H. J., Lee, J., Raihan, K., Jeon, M., & Howard, A. (2016). Multisensory robotic therapy to promote natural emotional interaction for children with ASD. The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 571-571. http://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2016.7451861
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/cls-fp/35