论文信息 - Humanoid robot NAO as a teaching tool of emotion recognition for children with autism using the Android app

Humanoid robot NAO as a teaching tool of emotion recognition for children with autism using the Android app

In this paper, we used a humanoid robot to physically show emotional poses and conduct a simple guessing game with children. Nine different emotions using the robot's body poses have been developed using Choregraphe. A pre-test was carried out with a normal developing 6-year old boy. We report some qualitative findings that we found during the child-robot interaction. We aim to develop an Android app as a simple tool that can be used on smartphones. This serves as a fundamental step to empower non-technical persons in using robots to interact with children with autism for learning and therapeutic purposes.

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