Understanding user perceptions is particularly important in developing social robots, which
tend to have a high degree of interaction with humans. However, psychometric measures of …

This paper presents an extensive review of" bio-inspired therapeutic pet robots", an
emerging class of social robots deployed for therapeutic scenarios with a wide range of …

This paper presents a series of results from a pilot study with ten participants to evaluate if
children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit more social interaction interests when …

Simulations became a convenient, easy and safe way to interact with a robot in a virtual
world in order to reproduce complex tasks and environments, preliminary evaluate new …

This article reports our findings from a robot-assisted therapeutic study conducted over 49
days to investigate the sociopsychological and physiological effects in children with autism …

Educating children with autism is becoming a highly challenging task due to the nature of
the disorder and limited interest of these children in interacting with people. Nevertheless, it …

There is a growing interest in the integration of social robots in different applications in our
daily lives. However, it can be challenging to design a social robot that is perceived …

The use of biologically inspired robots in therapeutic settings could offer new possibilities for
improving learning and social interaction abilities of children with autism. This paper …

Numerous work has been done in biologically inspired robotics emulating models, systems
and elements of nature for the purpose of solving traditional robotics problems. Chromatic …

This chapter presents a detailed discussion of: the main principles of human–robot
interaction (HRI) applied to the development and implementation of rehabilitation robots; the …