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The main contribution of this study is the design and implementation of an autonomous human robot interaction system to engage children in performing several physical exercise motions by providing real-time feedback and guidance. The system is designed after several preliminary experiments with children and exercise coaches. In order to test the feasibility and the effectiveness of the exercise system...
Identifying autism, which is a developmental brain disorder, is possible at an early age. However, recording brain activity in patients with autism is challenging. However, electroencephalography (EEG) during sedation can be used to address this problem. We investigated a group of nineteen children consisting of autistic (N = 9; age, 6.71 ± 2.25 years) and typically developed (N = 10; age, 6.16 ±...
This paper presents in-situ evaluations comparing the EMF exposure associated with a BTS installed in the vicinity of an apartment, WLAN device and baby monitor in a typical scenario. The results show that under certain circumstances the exposure in the latter cases can be higher than the former.
Interactive Machine Learning considers that a robot is learning with and/or from a human. In this paper, we investigate the impact of human social traits on the robot learning. We explore social traits such as age (children vs. adult) and pathology (typical developing children vs. children with autistic spectrum disorders). In particular, we consider learning to recognize both postures and identity...
Children and their parents may undergo challenging experiences when admitted for in-patient care at pediatric hospitals. While most pediatric hospitals make an effort to provide socio-emotional support for patients and their families during care, such as with child life services, gaps still exist between professional resource supply and patient demand. There is an opportunity to apply interactive...
Children are eager to anthropomorphize (ascribe human attributes to) social robots. As a consequence they expect a more unconstrained, substantive and useful interaction with the robot than is possible with the current state-of-the art. In this paper we reflect on several of our user studies and investigate the form and role of expectations in child-robot interaction. We have found that the effectiveness...
Intimate relationships are crucially important in all human societies, yet many relationships are in some degree of distress. Couple psychotherapy has been demonstrated to be effective at reducing relationship distress, yet most couples do not seek help from professionals. Automated couples counselors could provide help to many couples who avoid professional help due to cost, logistics, or discomfort...
A good explanation takes the user who is receiving the explanation into account. We aim to get a better understanding of user preferences and the differences between children and adults who receive explanations from a robot. We implemented a Nao-robot as a belief-desire-intention (BDI)-based agent and explained its actions using two different explanation styles. Both are based on how humans explain...
This work aimed the designing of an integrated neonatal incubator system for monitoring premature newborns (NB). This project has as main feature the real-time temperature and weight data acquisition with the storing of it in a cloud server and as extra functionality, a variety of warnings of health risks from the NB health state. Those alerts were sent directly to smartphones linked with this system...
Child abuse has been one of global issue recently. There are big number of child abuse case in every country in the world. It drives most of country in this world form their private organization to handle the child abuse issue. While running their organization, they also form child abuse policy. Recently, the presence of technology has changed the way people in doing activities. In this paper, we...
The secondary use of health data, especially the use of physiological data for research holds many opportunities for improving the current understanding of neonatal conditions. As a neonate is unable to provide their consent regarding participation in research studies, a substitute decision maker (SDM) must provide parental or legal guardian consent. However it has been well documented that there...
The increasing prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has made this as one of the largest disability groups. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is considered as a lifelong developmental disability impacting on three main areas; communication skills, behavioural patterns and health. The main focus of this research is on the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) solutions as part...
A Semantic Compositional Network (SCN) is developed for image captioning, in which semantic concepts (i.e., tags) are detected from the image, and the probability of each tag is used to compose the parameters in a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. The SCN extends each weight matrix of the LSTM to an ensemble of tag-dependent weight matrices. The degree to which each member of the ensemble is...
At present, the classification of brain diseases through neuroimaging data is a hot topic. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is usually diagnosed by the standard scale. However, the traditional diagnostic methods have high misdiagnosis rate and time consuming. In this paper, we discussed the classification of ADHD by using the feature subset obtained by preprocessing and feature selection...
A virtual reality program has been developed to assess the strength and flexibility of a computer based model of a term fetus or newborn baby's neck. The software has a haptic/force feedback user interface which allows clinical experts to adjust the mechanical properties, including range of motion and mechanical stiffness of a newborn neck model, at runtime. The developed software was assessed by...
The approximation of stable linear time-invariant systems is a central task in many applications. Therefore, it is important to know if a given approximation process is stable and converges for all signals from the signal space or if it is unstable and diverges for certain signals. Further, in the case of divergence, it is interesting to know whether the set of signals with divergent approximation...
We evaluated the therapeutic effects of anti-gravity locomotor treadmill (AlterG) training on postural stability in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and spasticity, particularly in the lower extremity. AlterG can facilitate walking by reducing the weight of CP children by up to 80%; it can also help subjects maintain an appropriate posture during the locomotor AlterG training. Thus, we hypothesized...
Infants with developmental delays must be detected early in their development to minimize the progression of motor and neurological impairments. Our objective is to quantify how sensorized toys in a natural play environment can promote infant-toy physical interactions. We created a hanging elephant toy, equipped with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a pressure transducer, and multiple feedback...
This paper presents a modular, computationally-distributed “multi-robot” cyberphysical system designed to assist children with developmental delays in learning to walk. The system consists of two modules, each assisting a different aspect of gait: a tethered cable pelvic module with up to 6 degrees of freedom (DOF), which can modulate the motion of the pelvis in three dimensions, and a two DOF wearable...
The aim of this research is to develop constructs for a measurement to assess children's emotional connection towards technology. The emerging technologies impact our way of livings in different ways regardless of age. If technology is properly used, it can make betterment to one's life, but if it is improperly used, it causes severity to human beings. The impact of technology that we may not realize...
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