Why Robots? A Survey on the Roles and Benefits of Social Robots in the Therapy of Children with Autism
Why Robots? A Survey on the Roles and Benefits of Social Robots in the Therapy of Children with Autism
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DOI：
10.1007/s12369-013-0202-2
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Aljunied, Sharifah Mariam
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作者：
Cabibihan, John-John;Javed, Hifza;Aljunied, Sharifah Mariam
本文综述了社会互动机器人的使用，以协助自闭症儿童的治疗。研究人员调查了机器人在帮助儿童解决社交、情感和沟通缺陷方面的成功程度。儿童与机器人的互动进行了仔细审查，就不同的目标行为，是从一个孩子在治疗过程中引起的。这些行为是根据孩子的发展需要进行彻底检查的。最重要的是，从调查作品中提取实验数据，并根据目标行为以及每个机器人在治疗过程中如何使用以实现这些行为进行分析。研究最后对这些机器人所扮演的不同治疗角色进行了分类，并强调了使它们能够在自闭症治疗中实现高水平有效性的重要设计特征。
This paper reviews the use of socially interactive robots to assist in the therapy of children with autism. The extent to which the robots were successful in helping the children in their social, emotional and communication deficits was investigated. Child-robot interactions were scrutinized with respect to the different target behaviors that are to be elicited from a child during therapy. These behaviors were thoroughly examined with respect to a child's development needs. Most importantly, experimental data from the surveyed works were extracted and analysed in terms of the target behaviors and of how each robot was used during a therapy session to achieve these behaviors. The study concludes by categorizing the different therapeutic roles that these robots were observed to play, and highlights the important design features that enable them to achieve high levels of effectiveness in autism therapy.