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Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities
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The Role of Technology in Enhancing Play for Children with Disabilities: Perspectives from Parents
Dabiri Golchin, M., Ripat, J., & Young, J. (2026, Feb 9–12). The Role of Technology in Enhancing Play for Children with Disabilities: Perspectives from Parents, Children, and Experts Using the Dice Model of Play, the 19th WFOT Congress, Bangkok, Thailand.
Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities
Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301
Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities
Raquel Reann Thiessen. Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities to Support Play. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.
Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements
Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements and Barriers 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, 625–628. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580161
Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units
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
Collaborators
As well as: Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto and Jacquie Ripat