From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot

By Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson. 2009 Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2009

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Improving social skills in children with ASD using a long-term, in-home social robot (2018, background): “Although challenging, increasing robot autonomy in assisted therapy has potential to reduce therapists’ cognitive load and ensures consistent therapy for the children with autism (21).”
Robots for use in autism research. (2012, methodology): “Similarly, a remote-control robot named Kaspar has a realistic face with significantly less actuation (25): It has two DOF in the mouth (open/close and smile/frown) and three DOF in the eyes (up/down, left/right, and open/close the eyelids).”
A review of verbal and non-verbal human-robot interactive communication (2014, background): “However, recent research [161], [162], [163], [164] has indicated that specially-designed robots that interact with autistic children could potentially help them towards improving their communication skills, and potentially transferring over these skills to communicating not only with robots, but…”
Why Robots? A Survey on the Roles and Benefits of Social Robots in the Therapy of Children with Autism (2013, background): “These are communicated to the child with simple, indulging activities, hence eliminating any sensory overload [41, 47].”