ROBOT BASED AUTISM THERAPY

Robot-based autism therapy is a rapidly growing area of research. Currently a wide variety of robots are being developed and studied for clinical use. Evaluation of robots for this purpose requires researchers and therapists to carefully scrutinise the robot's performance. Collectively however, researchers in this field could bring together findings to generate a more detailed picture as to the effectiveness of robots used for autism therapy and their practicality in a clinical setting... The goal of this workshop is to enable a cross fertilization of ideas and solutions for the issues encountered by researchers when attempting to develop robotic agents for autism therapy. Similarly through this workshop, we aim to better understand the limitations of robotic agents, not only with respect to their construction, but also when they are placed in a clinical setting for therapeutic use... Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a set of developmental conditions hallmarked by three core areas..