Abstract
Autism impacts around 5 million people in the EU (Autism-Europe). Research has shown that social robots, due to their deterministic nature, simplified appearance and technological capabilities, can enable therapy or become assistive technology for empowering autistic individuals with household activities. Consequently, toolkits have emerged for prototyping social robots. Regarding such toolkits, there is a methodological, inclusion gap: there is no comprehensive, scaffolded co-design process to include cognitively disadvantaged users in decision-making regarding robots’ fundamental design choices. To overcome this gap and empower autistic adults to truly design their own (non-preprogrammed) robots, this research explores a social robot toolkit driven by designerly scaffoldings for driving participatory design activities.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2020 |
| Event | 1st International Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge 2020 - Online event Duration: 3 Sep 2020 → 3 Sep 2020 Conference number: 1 http://hridesign.eu/#first-international-workshop-on-designerly-hri-knowledge-held-in-conjunction-with-the-29th-ieee-international-conference-on-robot-and-human-interactive-communication-ro-man-2020 http://hridesign.eu/ |
Workshop
| Workshop | 1st International Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge 2020 |
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| Period | 3/09/20 → 3/09/20 |
| Other | Held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020) |
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