Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units

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Abstract

Children with disabilities have fewer opportunities and lower motivation for play, impacting their cognitive and social development. Leveraging co-design and participatory design we plan to conduct a study with children with physical disabilities and their families to learn the requirements, concerns, barriers, and opinions about using social robots to facilitate play in children with physical disabilities. Combining the insights gathered from the families with knowledge from literature, we hope to outline the requirements needed to direct future research with a grounded understanding of the practical and social landscape these social robots would need to be designed within.

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Raquel Thiessen. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 784–786. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3579985

Bibtext Entry

@inproceedings{10.1145/3568294.3579985,
author = {Thiessen, Raquel},
title = {Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9781450399708},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3579985},
doi = {10.1145/3568294.3579985},
abstract = {Children with disabilities have fewer opportunities and lower motivation for play, impacting their cognitive and social de-velopment. Leveraging co-design and participatory design we plan to conduct a study with children with physical disabili-ties and their families to learn the requirements, concerns, barriers, and opinions about using social robots to facilitate play in children with physical disabilities. Combining the in-sights gathered from the families with knowledge from litera-ture, we hope to outline the requirements needed to direct fu-ture research with a grounded understanding of the practical and social landscape these social robots would need to be de-signed within.},
booktitle = {Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
pages = {784–786},
numpages = {3},
keywords = {human-robot interaction, participatory design, child-robot interaction},
location = {Stockholm, Sweden},
series = {HRI '23}
}

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