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SUMMARY:Robot-assisted therapy for autism - Jaeryoung Lee\, Nagoya Univers
 ity
DTSTART:20120920T101500Z
DTEND:20120920T110000Z
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CONTACT:Peter Robinson
DESCRIPTION:This study explores the response of autistic children to a few
  design features of the robots for autism therapy and provides suggestions
  on the robot features that have a stronger influence on the therapeutic p
 rocess. First\, we investigate the effect of selected robot features on th
 e development of social communication skills in autistic children. The res
 ults indicate that the toy’s “face” and “moving limb” usually dr
 aw the children’s attention and improve children’s facial expression s
 kills\, but do not contribute to the development of other social communica
 tion skills. Secondly\, we study the response of children with low‐funct
 ioning autism to robots with verbal communication functionalities. Test re
 sults show that children interacted with the verbal‐featured robot more 
 intensively than with the experimenter. We conclude that robots with faces
  and moving limbs can engage autistic children in a better way. Facial exp
 ression of the robots can elicit a greater response than prompting by huma
 ns.\n\n*Biography*\n\nJaeryoung Lee received her B.S. in Mechanical Engine
 ering from Pusan National University\, Korea in 2009 and her M.S. in Mecha
 nical Engineering from the Nagoya University\, Japan in 2012. She is curre
 ntly a PhD student at Nagoya University\, Japan in the Mechanical Engineer
 ing and a Research Assistant for the Global Center of Excellence program. 
 Her research interests are in robot assisted autism therapy and human robo
 t interaction.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room (SS03)\, Computer Laboratory
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