Haptic Intelligence
Conference Paper
2017
A Robotic Framework to Overcome Sensory Overload in Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Pilot Study
This paper discusses a novel framework designed to provide sensory stimulation to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The set up consists of multi-sensory stations to stimulate visual/auditory/olfactory/gustatory/tactile/vestibular senses, together with a robotic agent that navigates through each station responding to the different stimuli. We hypothesize that the robot’s responses will help children learn acceptable ways to respond to stimuli that might otherwise trigger sensory overload. Preliminary results from a pilot study conducted to examine the effectiveness of such a setup were encouraging and are described briefly in this text.
| Author(s): | Hifza Javed and Rachael Burns and Myounghoon Jeon and Ayanna Howard and Chung Hyuk Park |
| Book Title: | International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Month: | September |
| BibTeX Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
| Event Name: | International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017 |
| Event Place: | Vancouver, Canada |
| Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Burns_2017_IROS,
title = {A Robotic Framework to Overcome Sensory Overload in Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Pilot Study},
booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017},
abstract = {This paper discusses a novel framework designed to provide sensory stimulation to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The set up consists of multi-sensory stations to stimulate visual/auditory/olfactory/gustatory/tactile/vestibular senses, together with a robotic agent that navigates through each station responding to the different stimuli. We hypothesize that the robot’s responses will help children learn acceptable ways to respond to stimuli that might otherwise trigger sensory overload. Preliminary results from a pilot study conducted to examine the effectiveness of such a setup were encouraging and are described briefly in this text.},
month = sep,
year = {2017},
author = {Javed, Hifza and Burns, Rachael and Jeon, Myounghoon and Howard, Ayanna and Park, Chung Hyuk},
month_numeric = {9}
}