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Purpose: Play is an essential part of children's lives. Children with physical disabilities
experience difficulties in play, especially those with severe physical disabilities. With the …

Aims: Children with limited gross motor and manual abilities have fewer opportunities to
engage in free play. We investigated the effect of a robotic intervention on the playfulness of …

Robots present an opportunity to redefine traditional game scenarios by being physical
embodiments of agents/game elements. Robot assisted play has been used to reduce the …

The aim of this study was to explore the application of the IROMEC (Interactive social
RObotic Mediators as Companions) robot to support play for children with severe physical …

Purpose: Play is an important occupation in a child's development. Children with disabilities
often have fewer opportunities to engage in meaningful play than typically developing …

BACKGROUND: Play is essential for children's development. Children with severe physical
disabilities often experience problems engaging in play. In rehabilitation and special …

This paper presents an observational preliminary study to examine the potentialities of the
humanoid social robots as non-pharmacological techniques for children. The aim of the …

Piaget [1] focused on the importance of play for cognitive development: human beings know
reality through experience, that is, acting on reality. Play promotes both mental and symbolic …

According to numerous researchers (Sechenov, 1952; Pavlov, 1937; Oliverio, 2007), motor
actions play an important role in the formation of mind; they affect learning and are at the …