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Social Robots and Teaching Music to Autistic Children: Myth or Reality?

verfasst von : Alireza Taheri, Ali Meghdari, Minoo Alemi, Hamidreza Pouretemad, Pegah Poorgoldooz, Maryam Roohbakhsh

Erschienen in: Social Robotics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Music-based therapy is an appropriate tool to facilitate multisystem development in children with autism. The focus of this study is to implement a systematic and hierarchical music-based scenario in order to teach the fundamentals of music to children with autism through a social robot. To this end, we have programmed a NAO robot to play the xylophone and the drum. After running our designed robot-assisted clinical interventions on three high-functioning and one low functioning autistic children, fairly promising results have been observed. We indicated that the high-functioning participants have learned how to play the musical notes, short sentences, and simple rhythms. Moreover, the program affected positively on autism severity, fine movement and communication skills of the autistic subjects. The initial results observed indicate promising potentials for involving social robots in music-based autism therapy.

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Fußnoten
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Graphical User Interface .
 
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Typically Developing.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Social Robots and Teaching Music to Autistic Children: Myth or Reality?
verfasst von
Alireza Taheri
Ali Meghdari
Minoo Alemi
Hamidreza Pouretemad
Pegah Poorgoldooz
Maryam Roohbakhsh
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_53