THE DISABILITY EXPERIENCE CONFERENCE

ROBOTS TO MOTIVATE

YOUNGHYUN CHUNG

SPECIFIC AIMS

1. Develop a system of software and hardware for interfacing AAC devices and robots that allows multiple AAC devices to control the robot.

2. Design an AAC system user interface that combines robot control with spoken output.

3. To find the efficacy of collaborative robot system in terms of communication rate and collaboration rate.

SYSTEM DIAGRAM

EXAMPLE OF USER INTERFACE PAGE

GOALS AND MEASURES

Operational goal of AAC was identified by SLP at the beginning

3 children in Group 5 were encouraged to interact with each other by making task-related comments or directing each other's robot control

Weekly 30min sessions for 8 weeks

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RESPONSE TIME

CURRENT STUDY

PROTOCOL

Move the robot collaboratively to a goal

Help each other and communicate using AAC or vocalizations

SLP will provide a minimal assistant to complete the robot tasks, for instances, by prompting when they lost attention

During the sessions, an investigator observes and collects data

The robot control software on each child’s AAC device will collect data and speech language pathologists also collect data by hand annotation

SPONTANEOUS COMMENTS

SPONTANEOUS ROBOT CONTROL