Issues of Robot-Human Interaction Dynamics in the Rehabilitation of Children with Autism

The paper discusses dynamics in human robot interaction Firstly we propose a terminology for classifying robot human interaction dynamics of increasing complexity Secondly we address the role of human robot interaction in a particular application area namely rehabilitation Speci cally we discuss the area of autism and how mo bile robots can play a therapeutic role in the reha bilitation of children with autism investigated in the project AURORA Problems and challenges of this work in progress aiming at getting the in teraction dynamics right are discussed Introduction Building Interactive

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