Abstract
Autism Spectrum Disorders is a group of lifelong disabilities that affect people's communication and underlying social messages. The state of the art is an indication of how technology, and in particular robotics, can offer promising tools to enhance research and treatment in ASD. This review represents an attempt to investigate how robot-assistive therapy strategies help children with autism increase social interaction and to imitate, recognize and express feelings. One of the major questions of this paper was if the robots appear to be effective means in assistive therapies. The research team of this paper concluded that robots are discovered to be a predictable and secure environment for ASD children and to be quite efficient in the intervention process. In addition to the above-mentioned, this project also broaches ethical issues that should be taken into consideration by the researchers and therapists during human-robot interplay.
Highlights
Autism is a state involving a large variety of disorders with a weakening of social relations, communication and imagination, as well as seriousness and the nature of the symptoms varies from one person to another
We present researches on robots concerning the therapy of children with autism
Considering all the above, it is clear that robot-based therapies can help with the treatment of children with autism
Summary
Autism is a state involving a large variety of disorders with a weakening of social relations, communication and imagination, as well as seriousness and the nature of the symptoms varies from one person to another. The use of robots in autism intervention has been widely used in the last years. Robots have been used as assisting technology in many areas of autism research. They have been used to help children engage in social processes, to teach complex social behaviors, such as personal space recognition, adaptability, control communication and recognition of emotion. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how robots positively or negatively influence the intervention of autism in the area of social and emotional interaction
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