A large and increasing number of people around the world experience cognitive disability.
Rehabilitation robotics has provided promising training and assistance approaches to …

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in the socio-communicative
domain and frequently face severe difficulties in the recognition and expression of emotions …

The automatic emotion recognition domain brings new methods and technologies that might
be used to enhance therapy of children with autism. The paper aims at the exploration of …

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 …

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 …

In this work, we tackle the problem of child engagement estimation while children freely
interact with a robot in a friendly, room-like environment. We propose a deep learning-based …

As social robots make their way into human environments, they need to communicate with
the humans around them in rich and engaging ways. Sound is one of the core modalities of …

The potential of spatial sound to immerse, guide, and affect humans is well-known, but has
so far received little attention in the field of human-robot interaction. In this paper, we …

Recognizing the affective state of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in real-world
settings poses challenges due to the varying head poses, illumination levels, occlusion and …

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 …