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Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: Can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

Aude Billard

This article presents a longitudinal study with four children with autism, who were exposed to a humanoid robot over a period of several months. The longitudinal approach allowed the children time to explore the space of robot– human, as well as human–huma ...

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Robot-animal interaction: Perception and behavior of insbot

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This paper describes the hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot in size of a match box that simulates the behavior of cockroaches in order to establish a social interaction with them. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedic ...

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Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

Our work aims at developing a robust discriminant controller for robot programming by demonstration. It addresses two core issues of imitation learning, namely "what to imitate" and "how to imitate". This paper presents a method by which a robot extracts t ...

2005

The Impact of Liars on Reputation in Social Networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jochen Mundinger

We consider a closed social network with a certain proportion of liars who are trying to influence their peers reputation about some subject. Each persons reputation about this subject is based on both own direct experience and second hand information fr ...

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Design of a Biomimetic Upper Body for the Humanoid Robot Robota

Aude Billard, André Guignard

This paper presents the current prototype of doll-shaped humanoid robot Robota. The use of the robot Robota as part of studies with disabled children sets a number of constraints on its design. In particular, it requires that the robot bears a human likene ...

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Effects of repeated exposure of a humanoid robot on children with autism

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This work is part of the Aurora project which investigates the possible use of robots in therapy and education of children with autism (Aurora 2003), based on findings that people with autism enjoy interacting with computers, e.g. (Powell, 1996). In most o ...

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Robots as Assistive Technology - Does Appearance Matter?

This paper studies the effect of a robot’s design (appearance) in facilitating and encouraging interaction of children with autism with a small humanoid robot. The paper compares the children’s level of interaction with and response to the robot in two dif ...

2004

Development of a Miniature Pair of Eyes With Camera for the Humanoid Robot Robota

Aude Billard, André Guignard

A growing trend in humanoid robotics tend at reducing the size of humanoids in order to lower their building costs. While growing small has its advantages, it also has drawbacks. In particular, providing miniature humanoids with the same sensorimotor capab ...

2004

Discovering Optimal Imitation Strategies

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

This paper develops a general policy for learning relevant features of an imitation task. We restrict our study to imitation of manipulative tasks or of gestures. The imitation process is modeled as a hierarchical optimization system, which minimizes the d ...

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PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

To fulfill a need for natural, user-friendly means of interacting and reprogramming toy and humanoid robots, a growing trend of robotics research investigates the integration of methods for gesture recognition and natural speech processing. Unfortunately, ...

2003