A large and increasing number of people around the world experience cognitive disability.
Rehabilitation robotics has provided promising training and assistance approaches to …

Hospital environments are facing new challenges this century. One of the most important is
the quality of services to patients. Social robots are gaining prominence due to the …

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 …

In recent years, social robots have become part of a variety of human activities, especially in
applications involving children, eg, entertainment, education, companionship. The interest of …

Social robots are increasingly being used as a mediator between a therapist and a child in
autism therapy studies. In this context, most behavioural interventions are typically short …

This paper investigates the use of model-based reinforcement learning in the context of ad
hoc teamwork. We introduce a novel approach, named TEAMSTER, where we propose …

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder. Children
diagnosed with this disorder have persistent deficits in their social-emotional reciprocity …

This study presents the outcomes of a systematic literature review of empirical evidence on
the capabilities of sensing technologies for child–computer interaction (CCI). This paper …

21st century brought along a considerable decrease in social interactions, due to the newly
emerged lifestyle around the world, which became more noticeable recently of the COVID …

With its focus on robot-assisted autism therapy, this paper presents case-by-case analyses
of socio-emotional outcomes of 34 children aged 3–12 years old, with different cases of …