Theraputic-based robotic system for children with autism to enhance their social communication skills

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19700477
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Toyota Technological Institute
• Principal Investigator: RAVINDRA S.De Silva Toyota Technological Institute, 工学部, 研究員 (20449490)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Keywords: セラピーロボット / 共同注意 / 動作模倣能力 / コミュニケーション能力

Research Abstract

We have developed a social assistive robot for children with autism to improve their basic communication skills through child-robot interactions。Specially, our robotic system has developed to enhance their joint attention skills with basic imitation skills。

Research Products

• [Presentation] Unsupervised Approach to Acquire Robot Joint Attention (2009)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Katsunori Tadano, Stephen G. Lambacher, Susantha Herath, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] The Development of an Assistive Robot for Improving the Joint Attention of Autistic Children (2009)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Katsunori Tadano, Azusa Saito, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR09)
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] Therapeutic-Assisted Robot for Children With Autism (2009)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Katsunori Tadano, Azusa Saito, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS09)
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] The Development of an Assistive Robot as a Therapeutic Device to Enhance the Primal Imitation Skills of Autistic Children (2008)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Tohru Matsumoto, Azusa Saito, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: Workshop at ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference
  • Place of Presentation: ACM Society
  • Year and Date: 20080000
• [Presentation] Development of a Social Learning Mechanism for a Humanoid Robot (2008)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Tohru Matsumoto, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Intelligent Sensors、Sensor Networks and Information Processing
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
  • Year and Date: 20080000
• [Book] IN-TECH Scientific、Intelligent and Biosensors (2010)
  • Author(s): P. Ravindra S. De Silva, 他
  • Total Pages: 147-162