TY - GEN
T1 - Design of robot assisted observation system for therapy and education of children with autism
AU - Kim, Young Duk
AU - Hong, Jong Wook
AU - Kang, Won Seok
AU - Baek, Sang Su
AU - Lee, Hyo Shin
AU - An, Jinung
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Recently, a robot mediated therapy was given attention in support of the education and rehabilitation of children with autism. In this paper, we design and develop a robot assisted test-bed system, which provides efficient observations and analysis methods for children with autism during a free play session with robots. The test-bed system consists of a portable handheld device and a remote server. The handheld device helps a therapist to input and analyze observed results of children's play, and the remote server stores recorded video and audio information using a database program. For the robot platforms for proposed test-bed system, we use animal-type devices, which are familiar and effective for children with autism. The observed interaction between the robot and children is transmitted in real-time to the remote server. Thereafter, if it is needed, this system can provide the therapist with analyzed monitoring information for further educational treatments. For the actual service trial of the proposed system, we have implemented a specialized kindergarten for children with autism and performed several experiments. Results show that the proposed test-bed system provides not only easy and quantitative observation methods, but also efficient analyses for monitoring positive interactions between children with autism and robot systems.
AB - Recently, a robot mediated therapy was given attention in support of the education and rehabilitation of children with autism. In this paper, we design and develop a robot assisted test-bed system, which provides efficient observations and analysis methods for children with autism during a free play session with robots. The test-bed system consists of a portable handheld device and a remote server. The handheld device helps a therapist to input and analyze observed results of children's play, and the remote server stores recorded video and audio information using a database program. For the robot platforms for proposed test-bed system, we use animal-type devices, which are familiar and effective for children with autism. The observed interaction between the robot and children is transmitted in real-time to the remote server. Thereafter, if it is needed, this system can provide the therapist with analyzed monitoring information for further educational treatments. For the actual service trial of the proposed system, we have implemented a specialized kindergarten for children with autism and performed several experiments. Results show that the proposed test-bed system provides not only easy and quantitative observation methods, but also efficient analyses for monitoring positive interactions between children with autism and robot systems.
KW - children with autism
KW - human robot interactions
KW - monitoring system
KW - robot assisted therapy
KW - test-bed system
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-17248-9_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-17248-9_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649919256
SN - 3642172474
SN - 9783642172472
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 222
EP - 231
BT - Social Robotics - Second International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2010
Y2 - 23 November 2010 through 24 November 2010
ER -