Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects one's ability to understand social cues and to communicate. As it begins early in childhood and can last throughout a person's life, it is important to have an early intervention and rehabilitation. Pr...

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Main Authors: Ishak, Nor Izzati, Md. Yusof, Hazlina, Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim, Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Rusli, Nazreen
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Published: IEEE 2020
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author Ishak, Nor Izzati
Md. Yusof, Hazlina
Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim
Sidek, Shahrul Na'im
Rusli, Nazreen
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Md. Yusof, Hazlina
Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim
Sidek, Shahrul Na'im
Rusli, Nazreen
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description Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects one's ability to understand social cues and to communicate. As it begins early in childhood and can last throughout a person's life, it is important to have an early intervention and rehabilitation. Previous research has shown that robotic platforms helped and encouraged positive outcome in ASD children rehabilitation. Early interventions through human-robot interaction (HRI) have the potential when used to improve communication and social skills of the children. In this research, a new framework has been developed featuring a robot and human interaction modules. A commercial robot, Rero has been adopted and used as the interaction medium. This robot has been selected based on its reconfigurable capability and ability to be developed into many forms. It is also mobile, speech enabled, controllable, programmable, and attractive. Five modules of interaction have been developed and approval from special education teachers and therapists has been sought. The modules are created to help the children to be able to imitate actions, follow instructions, name objects, as well as to focus and match colours. Observations from the experiment shows that the children enjoyed the interaction modules with a median of more than 70% of scores and were well engaged with the robots with certain type of modules.
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spelling iium-787172020-07-13T04:09:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78717/ Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid) Ishak, Nor Izzati Md. Yusof, Hazlina Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim Sidek, Shahrul Na'im Rusli, Nazreen T Technology (General) Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects one's ability to understand social cues and to communicate. As it begins early in childhood and can last throughout a person's life, it is important to have an early intervention and rehabilitation. Previous research has shown that robotic platforms helped and encouraged positive outcome in ASD children rehabilitation. Early interventions through human-robot interaction (HRI) have the potential when used to improve communication and social skills of the children. In this research, a new framework has been developed featuring a robot and human interaction modules. A commercial robot, Rero has been adopted and used as the interaction medium. This robot has been selected based on its reconfigurable capability and ability to be developed into many forms. It is also mobile, speech enabled, controllable, programmable, and attractive. Five modules of interaction have been developed and approval from special education teachers and therapists has been sought. The modules are created to help the children to be able to imitate actions, follow instructions, name objects, as well as to focus and match colours. Observations from the experiment shows that the children enjoyed the interaction modules with a median of more than 70% of scores and were well engaged with the robots with certain type of modules. IEEE 2020-01-09 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78717/7/78717%20Modules%20of%20Interaction%20for%20ASD%20Children.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78717/8/78717%20Modules%20of%20Interaction%20for%20ASD%20Children%20SCOPUS.pdf Ishak, Nor Izzati and Md. Yusof, Hazlina and Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim and Sidek, Shahrul Na'im and Rusli, Nazreen (2020) Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid). In: 7th International Conference on Mechatronics Engineering (ICOM) 2019, 30 - 31 Oct 2019, Putrajaya. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8952038 10.1109/ICOM47790.2019.8952038
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Md. Yusof, Hazlina
Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim
Sidek, Shahrul Na'im
Rusli, Nazreen
Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)
title Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)
title_full Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)
title_fullStr Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)
title_full_unstemmed Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)
title_short Modules of interaction for ASD children using rero robot (Humanoid)
title_sort modules of interaction for asd children using rero robot (humanoid)
topic T Technology (General)
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