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Facilitating Collaboration among Children with Autism through Robot-assisted Play
Wainer, Joshua (2013-01-22)This thesis discusses how autonomous robots can be used to foster and support collaborative play among children with autism in a number of different settings. Because autism impairs one’s skills in social communication and ... -
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 ... -
Using the humanoid robot KASPAR to autonomously play triadic games and facilitate collaborative play among children with autism
Wainer, Joshua; Robins, Ben; Amirabdollahian, Farshid; Dautenhahn, K. (2014-09-09)This paper presents a novel design, implementation, and first evaluation of a triadic, collaborative game involving the humanoid robot KASPAR playing games with pairs of children with autism. Children with autism have ...