Development and evaluation of a social robot platform for therapy in autism

Daniele Mazzei; Nicole Lazzeri; Lucia Billeci; Roberta Igliozzi; Alice Mancini; Arti Ahluwalia; Filippo Muratori; Danilo De Rossi

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091119

Development and evaluation of a social robot platform for therapy in autism

Daniele Mazzei, Nicole Lazzeri, Lucia Billeci, Roberta Igliozzi, Alice Mancini, Arti Ahluwalia, Filippo Muratori, Danilo De Rossi

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Abstract

People with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) have difficulty in managing interpersonal relationships and common life social situations. A modular platform for Human Robot Interaction and Human Machine Interaction studies has been developed to manage and analyze therapeutic sessions in which subjects are driven by a psychologist through simulated social scenarios. This innovative therapeutic approach uses a humanoid robot called FACE capable of expressing and conveying emotions and empathy. Using FACE as a social interlocutor the psychologist can emulate real life scenarios where the emotional state of the interlocutor is adaptively adjusted through a semi closed loop control algorithm which uses the ASD subject's inferred affective state as input. Preliminary results demonstrate that the platform is well accepted by ASDs and can be consequently used as novel therapy for social skills training.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Pages	4515-4518
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091119
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: Aug 30 2011 → Sep 3 2011

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Other	33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston, MA
Period	8/30/11 → 9/3/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics

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Mazzei, D., Lazzeri, N., Billeci, L., Igliozzi, R., Mancini, A., Ahluwalia, A., Muratori, F., & De Rossi, D. (2011). Development and evaluation of a social robot platform for therapy in autism. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS (pp. 4515-4518). [6091119] https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091119

Mazzei, D, Lazzeri, N, Billeci, L, Igliozzi, R, Mancini, A, Ahluwalia, A, Muratori, F & De Rossi, D 2011, Development and evaluation of a social robot platform for therapy in autism. in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS., 6091119, pp. 4515-4518, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011, Boston, MA, United States, 8/30/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091119

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