Title
Engaging Persons with Neuro-Developmental Disorder with a Plush Social Robot
Abstract
The use of social robots in interventions for persons with Neuro-Developmental Disorder (NDD) has been explored in several studies. This paper describes a plush social robot with an elephant appearance called ELE that acts as conversational companion and has been designed to promote NDD persons engagement persons during interventions. We also present the initial evaluation of ELE and the preliminary results in terms of visual attention improvement in a storytelling context.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/HRI.2019.8673107
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Autism,Medical treatment,Robot sensing systems,Toy manufacturing industry,Streaming media,Microphones
Autism,Social robot,Developmental disorder,Storytelling,Psychological intervention,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Human–computer interaction,Medical treatment,Visual attention
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121
978-1-5386-8555-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davide Fisicaro101.01
Francesco Pozzi200.34
Mirko Gelsomini312019.79
Franca Garzotto41245203.98