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Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities

Abstract

We are currently conducting a study with children and their family units to learn the requirements for, concerns about, barriers to, and opinions on using social robots to facilitate play in children with physical disabilities. The motivation for this work is that children with disabilities often have fewer opportunities and lower playfulness, impacting their cognitive and social development. Simultaneously, social robots provide opportunities for supporting these children to engage in play. To work toward developing these robots, our goal in this work is to improve our understanding of the fundamental needs of the child and their family unit to allow us to be better positioned to develop such a social robot.

Authors

Thiessen R; Dabiri M; Geiskkovitch DY; Ripat J; Young JE

Pagination

pp. 625-628

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

March 13, 2023

DOI

10.1145/3568294.3580161

Name of conference

Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
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