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Social robots and teaching music to autistic children: Myth or reality?

Taheri, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2016

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_53
  3. Publisher: Springer Verlag , 2016
  4. Abstract:
  5. Music-based therapy is an appropriate tool to facilitate multisystem development in children with autism. The focus of this study is to implement a systematic and hierarchical music-based scenario in order to teach the fundamentals of music to children with autism through a social robot. To this end, we have programmed a NAO robot to play the xylophone and the drum. After running our designed robot-assisted clinical interventions on three high-functioning and one low functioning autistic children, fairly promising results have been observed. We indicated that the high-functioning participants have learned how to play the musical notes, short sentences, and simple rhythms. Moreover, the program affected positively on autism severity, fine movement and communication skills of the autistic subjects. The initial results observed indicate promising potentials for involving social robots in music-based autism therapy
  6. Keywords:
  7. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) ; Humanoid social robot ; Social and cognitive skills ; Diseases ; Robotics ; Robots ; Autism spectrum disorders ; Cognitive skill ; Imitation ; Music-based therapy ; Social robots ; Xylophone ; Education
  8. Source: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 1 November 2016 through 3 November 2016 ; Volume 9979 LNAI , 2016 , Pages 541-550 ; 03029743 (ISSN) ; 9783319474366 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47437-3_53