Enhancing social skills group intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder through socially assistive robotics

• Main Author: Wong, Alvin Hong Yee
• Other Authors: Zhong Zhaowei
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Robots; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior; DRNTU::Engineering::Industrial engineering::Human factors engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69016
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Children characterised with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) would be somewhat reserved, deficient in joint attention and socially withdrawn. Although no remedy had been identified for ASD at the present moment, early intervention could arrest its degradation. As ASD could manifest itself in many dive...