Robot-Assisted Intervention for children with special needs: a comparative assessment for autism screening
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2020
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Robotics and autonomous systems, 0921-8890, Vol. 127, 2020
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Elsevier
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Abstract
Despite the increment of researches related to Social Assistive Robotics (SAR), achieving a plausible
Robot-Assisted Diagnosis (RAD) for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (CwASD) remains a
considerable challenge to the clinical and robotics community. The work of specialists regarding
ASD diagnosis is hard and labor-intensive due to the condition’s manifestations are inherently
heterogeneous and makes the process more difficult. Besides, the aforementioned complexity may
be the main reason for the slow progress in the development of SAR with diagnostic purposes. Thus,
this work provides a comprehensive Robot-Assisted Intervention for CwASD showing the conditions
in which a Robot-based approach can be useful to assess autism risk factors for an autism diagnosis
purpose. The intervention scheme consists of an improved version of a multimodal environment for
Robot-based intervention proposed in our previous work. More specifically, we compared the behavior
of CwASD with that of children in a control group during a human/robot-mediated intervention while
Joint Attention (JA) behaviors are elicited and analyzed. Through statistical data analysis, it was possible
to identify that 17 out of 23 children of the CwASD group showed a different behavior pattern related
to three characteristics of autism, which suggests that this pattern can be used to identify autism risk
factors through Robot-based interventions.
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Autism spectrum disorder, Autism screening, Social assistive robotics
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Trastorno autístico
Metaanálisis en red
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Metaanálisis en red
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