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'Make it move' : Playing cause and effect games with a robot companion for children with cognitive disabilities
(ACM Press, 2011-01-01)
Play is one of the most important activities in child development. Children with special needs are often excluded from play activities due to the nature of their impairments. This paper describes the use of two types of ...
Robots as social mediators for children with Autism : A preliminary analysis comparing two different robotic platforms
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
Robots can be very helpful therapeutic tools, especially for children with special needs. In the present paper we describe the application of two robotic platforms with different design parameters in interaction with ...
Investigating tactile event recognition in child-robot interaction for use in autism therapy
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
The work presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the ROBOSKIN project. The project aims to develop and demonstrate a range of new robot capabilities based on robot skin tactile feedback from large areas of ...