Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2016
Session Number:M3-6
Session:
Number:M3-6-5
Treatments of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a Spherical Robot with Facial Expressions
San Ratanasanya, Anon Leekphai, Thanat Kitisook, Boonserm Kaewkamnerdpong, Jumpol Polvichai ,
pp.395-398
Publication Date:2016/7/10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition in many children, which referred to a broad set of behavioral disorders. Typically, children with ASD cannot communicate and interact with people, and as a result, having no social activities at all. Fortunately, they can interact with non-human object such as robots. There are hence many researches to treat these children using different shapes and types of robot. This paper investigates the effects of the spherical robot with facial epressions and movements in treating children with ASD. The designs, both structural and system, and suitable features of robot are studied and proposed. The preliminary experiments show impressive results that the proposed designs and features of the robot can successfully draw attention from 75% of the patients with different levels of disorders. However, more cases should be experimented in order to get more suitable details for treating ASD patients.