Penny J. Standen
Adapting a humanoid robot for use with children with profound and multiple disabilities
Standen, Penny J.; Brown, David J.; Hedgecock, Joseph; Roscoe, Jess; Galvez Trigo, Maria Jose; Elgajiji, Elmunir
Authors
David J. Brown
Joseph Hedgecock
Jess Roscoe
Maria Jose Galvez Trigo
Elmunir Elgajiji
Abstract
With all the developments in information technology (IT) for people with disabilities, few interventions have been designed for people with profound and multiple disabilities as there is little incentive for companies to design and manufacture technology purely for a group of consumers without much buying power. A possible solution is therefore to identify mainstream technology that, with adaptation, could serve the purposes required by those with profound and multiple disabilities. Because of its ability to engage the attention of young children with autism, the role of a humanoid robot was investigated. After viewing a demonstration, teachers of pupils with profound and multiple disabilities described actions they wished the robot to make in order to help nominated pupils to achieve learning objectives. They proposed a much wider range of suggestions for using the robot than it could currently provide. Adaptations they required fell into two groups: either increasing the methods through which the robot could be controlled or increasing the range of behaviours that the robot emitted. These were met in a variety of ways but most would require a degree of programming expertise above that possessed by most schoolteachers.
Citation
Standen, P. J., Brown, D. J., Hedgecock, J., Roscoe, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., & Elgajiji, E. (2016). Adapting a humanoid robot for use with children with profound and multiple disabilities.
Conference Name | 10th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies (ICDVRAT 2014) |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Oct 1, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Mar 22, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 22, 2017 |
Journal | International Journal of Child Health and Human Development |
Electronic ISSN | 1939-5965 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 3 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/768125 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.icdvrat.org/2014/conf2014.htm |
Additional Information | Published in: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on disability, virtual reality and associated technologies (ICDVRAT 2014). ICDVRAT. The University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp 480. ISBN 0704915466. |
Contract Date | Mar 22, 2017 |
Files
ADAPTING A HUMANOID ROBOT FOR USE WITH CHILDREN WITH PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES AAM.pdf
(416 Kb)
PDF
Downloadable Citations
About Repository@Nottingham
Administrator e-mail: discovery-access-systems@nottingham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search