The paper describes the design of a robot companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. This work; being informed by general design guidelines reported in the current literature, lessons learned from our own previous experience, meetings with a team of therapists and special educators, and a comparison with 21 wellknown robots; shows that the combination of robots' design features and roles would eventually made a robot companion unique and potentially powerful with respect to existing robots for this target group.

Designing a robot companion for children with neuro-developmental Disorders

Gelsomini, Mirko;Garzotto, Franca;LEONARDI, GIULIA;Clasadonte, Francesco
2017-01-01

Abstract

The paper describes the design of a robot companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. This work; being informed by general design guidelines reported in the current literature, lessons learned from our own previous experience, meetings with a team of therapists and special educators, and a comparison with 21 wellknown robots; shows that the combination of robots' design features and roles would eventually made a robot companion unique and potentially powerful with respect to existing robots for this target group.
2017
IDC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children
9781450349215
Children; Learning; Neurodevelopmental Disorder; Play, disability; Robot; Software; 3304; Human-Computer Interaction; Developmental and Educational Psychology
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