Social Stories for Autistic Children Told by the Huggable Robot Probo

Bram Vanderborght; Ramona Simut Vanderborght; Jelle Saldien; Cristina Pop; Alina S. Rusu; Sebastian Pintea; Daniel D David; Dirk Lefeber

Social Stories for Autistic Children Told by the Huggable Robot Probo

Bram Vanderborght, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Jelle Saldien, Cristina Pop, Alina S. Rusu, Sebastian Pintea, Daniel D David, Dirk Lefeber

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Children with autism have difficulties with social interaction and prefer interaction with objects, such as com- puters and robots rather than with humans. Probo is a social robot platform with an expressive head to study human-robot interaction. The social robot is in this study used for Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT) where the robot tells Social Stories to autistic children. Social Story Telling (SST) is a known therapy for autism in book form and is now for the first time tested by a scoial robot able to express different emotions by its 20 motors in the head. This paper discusses the technological innovations required to make a useful therapeutic tool for social story telling. Preliminary tests with Probo have shown that SST with Probo is more effective than with a human reader.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics workshop IROS 26 sept 2011
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 26 Sept 2011
Event	Unknown - Duration: 26 Sept 2011 → …

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Period	26/09/11 → …

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autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
robot assisted therapy (RAT)
social robot

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