Avatars and social robots offer new opportunities for communication and raise questions
about how trust is built and maintained in hybrid social interactions. We wonder what kind of …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) interventions increasingly harness the capabilities of
wearable technology, utilizing predictive analytics of physiological signals and personalized …

Supporting the development of a child with autism is a multi-profile therapeutic work on
disturbed areas, especially understanding and linguistic expression used in social …

Social touch is essential to everyday interactions, but current socially assistive robots have
limited touch-perception capabilities. Rather than build entirely new robotic systems, we …

The efficiency and comfort of daily tasks are intricately shaped by the dynamic interaction
between users and technology. User perceptions wield significant influence over initial …

In this paper, we present Starrypia, a lightweight gamified music adjuvant treatment
application to improve the symptoms of mild autistic children, eliminating the geographical …

Designing robotic hands has been an active area of research and innovation in the last
decade. However, little is known about how people perceive robot hands and react to being …

Utilizing touch interactions from smartphones for gathering data and identifying digital
markers for screening and monitoring neurological disorders, such as Autism Spectrum …

This article discusses the design, development, and evaluation of Ommie, a novel socially
assistive robot that supports deep breathing practices for the purposes of anxiety reduction …

In the past two decades, there has been a continuous rise in the deployment of robots
fulfilling social roles that expands across various industries such as guides, service …