Tele-operated collaborative robots are used by many children for academic learning.
However, as child-directed play is important for social-emotional learning, it is also important …

This research explored if a social robot would play a role in facilitating the development of
friendship between young children while they engage in playful learning. Grounded in child …

Through a series of 9 empirical child-robot interaction studies with 347 children and using
both teleoperated and autonomous robots, I establish the role of social robots as relational …

We are rapidly moving into an era where AI and robots are part of everyday interactions in
society and education, and there are immense discussions today about current and future …

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 …

This paper considers the question of whether robots can be effectively programmed for
autonomous social interaction through learning from demonstrations recorded via Wizardof …

Autistic children are thought to develop social attention skills differently from non-autistic
children. Previous work has shown that technology, and specifically tangible toys, could …

Robots are increasingly finding roles in contexts involving children, including companions in
therapy and education. Children's perceptions of and interactions with robots is a well …

Children with disabilities have fewer opportunities and lower motivation for play, impacting
their cognitive and social de-velopment. Leveraging co-design and participatory design we …

People are inherently playful, and playfulness matters not only when engaging in actual play
but also in all other activities. Based on this, I propose using a ludic design approach as a …