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Esubalew Bekele, Julie A Crittendon, Amy Swanson, Nilanjan Sarkar, Zachary E Warren
(2014).
Pilot clinical application of an adaptive robotic system for young children with autism.
Autism, 18(5), 598-608.
SAGE Publications.
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8 Oct 2013
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10.1177/1362361313479454
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Esubalew Bekele,
Julie A Crittendon,
Amy Swanson,
Nilanjan Sarkar,
Zachary E Warren
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- Autism
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- 18(5), 598-608
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- SAGE Publications
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Abstract
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.
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