Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3099-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121
DOI :
10.1109/HRI.2013.6483534
