Robotics in Autism Intervention

Authors

  • Polyxeni Ntaountaki N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Athens, Greece
  • Georgia Lorentzou N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Athens, Greece
  • Andriana Lykothanasi N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Athens, Greece
  • Panagiota Anagnostopoulou N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Athens, Greece
  • Vasiliki Alexandropoulou N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Athens, Greece
  • Athanasios Drigas N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Athens, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijes.v7i4.11448

Keywords:

robots, autism, intervention,

Abstract


Autism Spectrum Disorders is a group of lifelong disabilities that affect people's communication and underlying social messages. The state of the art is an indication of how technology, and in particular robotics, can offer promising tools to enhance research and treatment in ASD. This review represents an attempt to investigate how robot-assistive therapy strategies help children with autism increase social interaction and to imitate, recognize and express feelings. One of the major questions of this paper was if the robots appear to be effective means in assistive therapies. The research team of this paper concluded that robots are discovered to be a predictable and secure environment for ASD children and to be quite efficient in the intervention process. In addition to the above-mentioned, this project also broaches ethical issues that should be taken into consideration by the researchers and therapists during human-robot interplay.

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Published

2019-12-10

How to Cite

Ntaountaki, P., Lorentzou, G., Lykothanasi, A., Anagnostopoulou, P., Alexandropoulou, V., & Drigas, A. (2019). Robotics in Autism Intervention. International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science & IT (iJES), 7(4), pp. 4–17. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijes.v7i4.11448

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 4 (2019)

Section

Papers

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