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AuthorAlhaddad A.Y.
AuthorCabibihan J.-J.
AuthorBonarini A.
Available date2020-04-09T07:35:01Z
Publication Date2019
Publication Name2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019
ResourceScopus
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956375
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/13928
AbstractSocial robots are now being considered to be a part of the therapy of children with autism. During the interactions, some aggressive behaviors could lead to harmful scenarios. The ability of a social robot to detect such behaviors and react to intervene or to notify the therapist would improve the outcomes of therapy and prevent any potential harm toward another person or to the robot. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of an artificial neural network in classifying 6 interaction behaviors between a child and a small robotic toy. The behaviors were: hit, shake, throw, pickup, drop, and no interaction or idle. Due to the ease of acquiring data from adult participants, a model was developed based on adults' data and was evaluated with children's data. The developed model was able to achieve promising results based on the accuracy (i.e. 80%), classification report (i.e. overall F1-score=80%), and confusion matrix. The findings highlight the possibility of characterizing children's negative interactions with robotic toys to improve safety. - 2019 IEEE.
SponsorThe work is supported by a research grant from Qatar University under the grant No. QUST-1-CENG-2019-10. The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
Languageen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Subjecthuman-robot interaction
neural nets
paediatrics
pattern classification
TitleRecognition of Aggressive Interactions of Children Toward Robotic Toys
TypeConference Paper
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