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Automatic Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism: A Systematic Literature Review
Landowska, Agnieszka; Karpus, Aleksandra; Zawadzka, Teresa; Robins, Ben; Barkana, Duygun Erol; Kose, Hatice; Zorcec, Tatjana; Cummins, Nicholas (2022-02-20)The automatic emotion recognition domain brings new methods and technologies that might be used to enhance therapy of children with autism. The paper aims at the exploration of methods and tools used to recognize emotions ... -
Developing a protocol and experimental setup for using a humanoid robot to assist children with autism to develop visual perspective taking skills
Wood, Luke; Robins, Ben; Lakatos, Gabriella; Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Zaraki, Abolfazl; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2019-03-26)Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) is the ability to see the world from another person's perspective, taking into account what they see and how they see it, drawing upon both spatial and social information. Children with ... -
Development of a Semi-Autonomous Robotic System to Assist Children with Autism in Developing Visual Perspective Taking Skills
Zaraki, Abolfazl; Wood, Luke; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2018-11-06)Robot-assisted therapy has been successfully used to help children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) develop their social skills, but very often with the robot being fully controlled remotely by an adult operator. ... -
Effects of Previous Exposure on Children’s Perception of a Humanoid Robot
Lakatos, Gabriella; Wood, Luke Jai; Zaraki, Abolfazl; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Springer Nature, 2019-11-17)The study described in this paper investigated the effects of previous exposure to robots on children’s perception of the Kaspar robot. 166 children aged between 7 and 11 participated in the study in the framework of a UK ... -
Event Based Prospective Memory and Inhibition in Children with Language Disorder
Ryder, Nuala; Tracey, Megan; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2018-01-03)An increasing body of research suggests executive functioning (EF) interacts in language development and inhibitory control has been found to be implicated in language disorder (previously known as specific language ... -
Feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness of using a humanoid robot to improve the social skills of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (Kaspar RCT): A Study Protocol
Mengoni, Silvana; Irvine, Karen; Thakur, Deepshikha; Barton, Garry; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Guldberg, Karen; Robins, Ben; Wellsted, David; Sharma, Shivani (2017-06-22)Introduction: Interventions using robot-assisted therapy may be beneficial for the social skills development of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are lacking. The ... -
A feasibility study of using Kaspar, a humanoid robot for speech and language therapy for children with learning disabilities
Lakatos, Gabriella; Sarda Gou, Marina; Holthaus, Patrick; Wood, Luke; Moros Espanol, Sílvia; Lichfield, Vicky; Robins, Ben; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-13)The research presented in this paper investigates the feasibility of using humanoid robots like Kaspar as assistive tools in Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) therapy for children with learning disabilities. The ... -
A Humanoid Robot as Assistive Technology for Encouraging Social Interaction Skills in Children with Autism
Robins, Ben (University of Hertfordshire, 2005-07)Interactive robots, virtual environments and other computer based technologies are increasingly applied in rehabilitation therapy and education. The research presented in this thesis investigates the potential use of a ... -
A humanoid robot as assistive technology for encouraging social interaction skills in children with autism
Robins, Ben (University of Hertfordshire, 2005)Interactive robots, virtual environments and other computer based technologies are increasingly applied in rehabilitation therapy and education. The research presented in this thesis investigates the potential use of a ... -
The Iterative Development of the Humanoid Robot Kaspar: An Assistive Robot for Children with Autism
Wood, Luke; Zaraki, Abolfazl; Walters, Michael; Novanda, Ori; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2017-11)This paper gives an overview of the design and development of the humanoid robot Kaspar. Since the first Kaspar robot was developed in 2005, the robotic platform has undergone continuous development driven by the needs of ... -
Kaspar Causally Explains
Araujo, Hugo; Holthaus, Patrick; Sarda Gou, Marina; Lakatos, Gabriella; Galizia, Giulia; Wood, Luke; Robins, Ben; Mousavi, Mohammadreza; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Springer Nature, 2023-02-02)The Kaspar robot has been used with great success to work as an education and social mediator with children with autism spectrum disorder. Enabling the robot to automatically generate causal explanations is key to enrich ... -
Kaspar Explains: The Effect of Causal Explanations on Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sarda Gou, Marina; Lakatos, Gabriella; Holthaus, Patrick; Robins, Ben; Moros Espanol, Sílvia; Wood, Luke; Araujo, Hugo; deGraft-Hanson, Christine Augusta Ekua; Mousavi, Mohammad Reza; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-13)This paper presents an investigation into the effectiveness of introducing explicit causal explanations in a child-robot interaction setting to help children with autism improve their Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) skills. ... -
KASPAR in the wild - Initial findings from a pilot study
Syrdal, D.S.; Lehmann, Hagen; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, K. (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2014-04)This extended abstract describes the initial pilot work when evaluating the use of the UH Humanoid Robot KASPAR in a specialist nursery for children with social and communication disorders. Staff and volunteers at the ... -
Kaspar in the wild: Experiences from deploying a small humanoid robot in a nursery school for children with autism
Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Robins, Ben; Karakosta, Efstathia; Cannon Jones, Nan (2020-07-01)This article describes a long-term study evaluating the use of the humanoid robot Kaspar in a specialist nursery for children with autism. The robot was used as a tool in the hands of teachers or volunteers, in the absence ... -
A Novel Reinforcement-Based Paradigm for Children to Teach the Humanoid Kaspar Robot
Zaraki, Abolfazl; Khamassi, Mehdi; Wood, Luke; Lakatos, Gabriella; Tzafestas, Costas; Amirabdollahian, Farshid; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2019-11-22)This paper presents a contribution to the active field of robotics research with the aim of supporting the development of social and collaborative skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). We present a novel ... -
A Pilot Study with a Novel Setup for Collaborative Play of the Humanoid Robot KASPAR with children with autism
Wainer, Joshua; Dautenhahn, K.; Robins, Ben; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (2014-01)This article describes a pilot study in which a novel experimental setup, involving an autonomous humanoid robot, KASPAR, participating in a collaborative, dyadic video game, was implemented and tested with children with ... -
Robot companions for children with down syndrome : A case study
Lehmann, Hagen; Iacono, Iolanda; Dautenhahn, K.; Marti, Patrizia; Robins, Ben (2014-01-01)We describe an exploratory case study about the applicability of different robotic platforms in an educational context with a child with Down syndrome. The robotic platforms tested are the humanoid robot KASPAR and the ... -
Robot-Mediated Interviews with Children: What do potential users think?
Wood, Luke; Lehmann, Hagen; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Robins, Ben; Rainer, Austen; Syrdal, Dag Sverre (2017-03-30)To date research investigating the potential of Robot-Mediated Interviews (RMI) has focused on establishing how children respond to robots in an interview scenario. In order to test if an RMI approach would work in a real ... -
Robot-Mediated interviews: A field trial with a potential real-world user
Wood, Luke; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Rainer, Austen; Robins, Ben; Lehmann, Hagen; Syrdal, Dag Sverre (2020-05-20)In recent years the possibility of using humanoid robots to perform interviews with children has been explored in a number of studies. This paper details a study in which a potential real-world user trialled a Robot-Mediated ... -
Robot-Mediated interviews: A field trial with a potential real-world user
Wood, Luke; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Rainer, Austen; Robins, Ben; Lehmann, Hagen; Syrdal, Dag Sverre (2020-05-20)In recent years the possibility of using humanoid robots to perform interviews with children has been explored in a number of studies. This paper details a study in which a potential real-world user trialled a Robot-Mediated ...