Development of an ABA Autism Intervention Delivered by a Humanoid Robot
Development of an ABA Autism Intervention Delivered by a Humanoid Robot
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开发由人形机器人提供的 ABA 自闭症干预措施
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2016
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通讯作者：
M. Mahoor
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作者：
Michelle J. Salvador;Anna Sophia Marsh;Anibal Gutierrez;M. Mahoor
应用行为分析（ABA）技术作为一种有效的自闭症治疗方法被自闭症研究界广泛使用和接受。 ABA 技术最近被引入与社交辅助机器人 (SAR) 一起使用来提供自闭症治疗。尽管如此，关于使用基于机器人的 ABA 来教授自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 儿童的社会情感技能的研究还很少。本文介绍了由人形机器人 Zeno R-50 提供的基于 ABA 的自主治疗系统的开发。具体来说，提出了一种带有提示的干预方法和 ABA 强化协议，以针对与面部和情境情绪识别和理解相关的技能。招募了 11 名被诊断患有自闭症的儿童参加预试验研究筛选。对初步结果进行调查，以发现孩子们喜欢的强化物，并在进行完整的研究小组之前找到改进治疗系统的方法。结果证明了强化物的成功检测，并表明强化物偏好与年龄之间存在相关性。介绍了两名已完成干预措施的儿童的结果，并讨论了方案的改进，以有助于理解 SAR 在向诊断为自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的儿童教授社会情感技能方面的作用。
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) techniques are widely used and accepted by the Autism research community as an effective Autism therapy method. ABA techniques have been recently introduced to use with Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) to deliver Autism therapy. Nonetheless, little research has been published to investigate the use of robot-based ABA in teaching socio-emotional skills for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper presents the development of an ABA-based autonomous therapy system delivered by a humanoid robot, the Zeno R-50. Specifically, an intervention methodology with a prompt and an ABA reinforcement protocol to target skills associated with facial and situational emotion recognition and understanding are presented. Eleven children diagnosed with Autism were recruited to participate in the pre-pilot study screening. Initial results are investigated to discover the children’s preferred reinforcers and also to find ways of improving the therapy system before proceeding through full study groups. Results demonstrate the successful detection of reinforcers and show there is correlation between reinforcer preference and age. Results on two children who have completed interventions are presented and improvements to the protocol are discussed to contribute to the understanding of SAR in teaching socio-emotional skills to children diagnosed with ASD.
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2.5
作者：
Diehl JJ;Schmitt LM;Villano M;Crowell CR
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Crowell CR