8. Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions: an examination of the role of prosody

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Introduction vii
4. Contents xiii
5. List of authors xxi
6. Part I. The evolution and design of service robots in health care: evaluating the role of speech and other modalities in human-robot interaction
7. 1. A critical analysis of speech- based interaction in healthcare robots: making a case for the increased use of speech in medical and assistive robots 3
8. 2. Speech- based interaction with service robots: a survey of methods and approaches 31
9. 3. Improving patient-robot interaction in health care: service robot feature effects on patient acceptance and emotional responses 61
10. 4. Designing embodied and virtual agents for the operating room: taking a closer look at multimodal medical-service robots and other cyber-physical systems 107
11. Part II. Design and usability of medical and assistive robots in elder care: reporting on case studies and pilot test results
12. 5. The emerging role of robotics for personal health management in the older-adult population 137
13. 6. Enabling older adults to interact with robots: why input methods are critical for usability 163
14. 7. Human-robot interaction for assistance with activities of daily living: a case study of the socially and cognitively engaging Brian 2.1 in the long-term care setting 183
15. Part III. Speech-driven companion robots for children with medical and neurodevelopmental disorders: presenting empirical findings of EU-sponsored projects and prototypes
16. 8. Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions: an examination of the role of prosody 207
17. 9. ASR and TTS for voice controlled child-robot interactions in italian: empirical study findings on the Aliz-e project for treating children with metabolic disorders in the hospital setting 237
18. Editor’s biography 265