Embedded multimodal nonverbal and verbal interactions between a mobile toy robot and autistic children

Author

Giannopulu, Irini

Author_Institution

Cognitive Neurosci., UCP & UPMC, Paris, France

fYear

2013

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

128

Abstract

We studied the multimodal nonverbal and verbal relationship between autistic children and a mobile toy robot during free spontaneous game play. A range of cognitive nonverbal criteria including eye contact, touch, manipulation, and posture were analyzed; the frequency of the words and verbs was calculated. Embedded multimodal interactions of autistic children and a mobile toy robot suggest that this robot could be used as a neural orthesis in order to improve children´s brain activity and incite child to express language.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; game theory; human-robot interaction; medical robotics; mobile robots; neurophysiology; orthotics; autism spectrum disorder; autistic children; children brain activity improvement; cognitive nonverbal criteria; embedded multimodal nonverbal interactions; embedded multimodal verbal interactions; expressive language; eye contact analysis; free spontaneous game play; manipulation analysis; mobile toy robot; neural orthesis; posture analysis; robot human interactions; touch analysis; Autism; Brain; Games; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Visualization; autism; component multimodal interactions; expressive language; mobile toy robot; neural orthesis; spontaneous game play;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

2167-2121

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3099-2

Electronic_ISBN

2167-2121

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HRI.2013.6483534

Filename

6483534