Pilot clinical application of an adaptive robotic system for young children with autism.
Pilot clinical application of an adaptive robotic system for young children with autism.
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10.1177/1362361313479454
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2014-07
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Warren ZE
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Bekele E;Crittendon JA;Swanson A;Sarkar N;Warren ZE
有人认为，先进技术的临床应用可能有望解决与自闭症谱系障碍相关的障碍。该试点可行性研究评估了一种新型自适应机器人介导系统的应用，该系统能够管理和自动调整一小群患有自闭症谱系障碍的学龄前儿童（n = 6）和对照组（n = 6）的联合注意力提示。两组儿童花更多的时间看着人形机器人，并且能够在整个试验中达到高水平的准确性。然而，在各组中，儿童需要更高水平的提示才能在机器人管理的试验中成功定位。研究结果突出了闭环自适应机器人系统的潜在好处以及现有类人机器人平台的局限性。
It has been argued that clinical applications of advanced technology may hold promise for addressing impairments associated with autism spectrum disorders. This pilot feasibility study evaluated the application of a novel adaptive robot-mediated system capable of both administering and automatically adjusting joint attention prompts to a small group of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders (n = 6) and a control group (n = 6). Children in both groups spent more time looking at the humanoid robot and were able to achieve a high level of accuracy across trials. However, across groups, children required higher levels of prompting to successfully orient within robot-administered trials. The results highlight both the potential benefits of closed-loop adaptive robotic systems as well as current limitations of existing humanoid-robotic platforms.