Social Robots: A Promising Tool to Support People with Autism. A Systematic Review of Recent Research and Critical Analysis from the Clinical Perspective

R Vagnetti, A Di Nuovo, M Mazza, M Valenti - Review Journal of Autism …, 2024 - Springer
In the past decade, interdisciplinary research has revealed the potential benefits of using
social robots in the care of individuals with autism. There is a growing interest in integrating …

Robust multimodal emotion recognition from conversation with transformer-based crossmodality fusion

B Xie, M Sidulova, CH Park - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Decades of scientific research have been conducted on developing and evaluating methods
for automated emotion recognition. With exponentially growing technology, there is a wide …

Applications of Robotics for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review

L Santos, S Annunziata, A Geminiani, A Ivani… - Review Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Robotic therapies are receiving growing interest in the autism field, especially for the
improvement of social skills of children, enhancing traditional human interventions. In this …

Predictable robots for autistic children—Variance in robot behaviour, Idiosyncrasies in Autistic Children's Characteristics, and Child–Robot Engagement

BR Schadenberg, D Reidsma, V Evers… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Predictability is important to autistic individuals, and robots have been suggested to meet
this need as they can be programmed to be predictable, as well as elicit social interaction …

Toward personalized affect-aware socially assistive robot tutors for long-term interventions with children with autism

Z Shi, TR Groechel, S Jain, K Chima… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Affect-aware socially assistive robotics (SAR) has shown great potential for augmenting
interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, current SAR …

[HTML][HTML] Engagement in longitudinal child-robot language learning interactions: Disentangling robot and task engagement

M de Haas, P Vogt, R van den Berghe… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigated a seven sessions interaction between a peer-tutor robot and Dutch
preschoolers (5 years old) during which the children learned English. We examined whether …

Important preliminary insights for designing successful communication between a robotic learning assistant and children with autism spectrum disorder in Germany

AC Horstmann, L Mühl, L Köppen, M Lindhaus… - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Early therapeutic intervention programs help children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD) to improve their socio-emotional and functional skills. To relieve the …

The case for integrated advanced technology in applied behavior analysis

L Neely, A Carnett, J Quarles, H MacNaul… - Advances in …, 2023 - Springer
Most people rely on technology in their everyday lives to navigate responsibilities to family,
community, friends, and employers. The aim of this paper is to overview recent technological …

Engagnition: A multi-dimensional dataset for engagement recognition of children with autism spectrum disorder

W Kim, M Seong, KJ Kim, SJ Kim - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Engagement plays a key role in improving the cognitive and motor development of children
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Sensing and recognizing their engagement is crucial …

Engagement estimation during child robot interaction using deep convolutional networks focusing on ASD children

D Anagnostopoulou, N Efthymiou… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating the engagement of children is an essential prerequisite for constructing natural
Child-Robot Interaction. Especially in the case of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder …