Abstract Kindergarten Social Assistive Robotics (KindSAR) is a novel technology that offers
kindergarten staff an innovative tool for achieving educational aims through social …

This study examined the first-time acceptance of (SAR) by preschool and primary school
teachers. A modified Unified Theory of Acceptance and the Use of Technology model was …

Abstract Kindergarten Social Assistive Robot (KindSAR) is an innovative tool that promotes
children's development through social interaction. In this report we describe how KindSAR …

Robotics Agent Coacher for Cerebral Palsy motor Function (RAC CP Fun) is an attempt to
implement socially assistive robotics, and a motor learning approach in rehabilitating …

This paper presents an experimental assessment of the children's receptivity to the human-
like conversational robot MARKO. It reports on a production of a corpus that is composed of …

This paper reports on a pilot corpus of child-robot interaction in therapeutic settings. The
corpus comprises recordings of the interactions between twenty-one children and the …

Significant research effort has already been invested in the field of robot-assisted therapy for
children with developmental disorders, and the researchers generally agree that therapists …

In this paper we present the development of a robot designed as an assistive technology in
therapy of children suffering from developmental disorders, tested on example of cerebral …

This paper proposes a computationally appropriate approach to evaluation of the dialogue
act complexity in human-machine interaction inspired by a functional interpretation of the …

Two fundamental nontechnical research questions related to the development of emotion-
aware dialogue systems are how to identify different kinds of emotional reactions that can be …