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NAO-‐Base: A Mul.media Database to Support Socially-‐Assis.ve Robo.cs for Individuals with Au.sm Spectrum Disorder
John Vernon,1 Jessica Kumar,1 Michael Villano,1 Charles R. Crowell,1 Kris8n Wier,1 Karen Tang,1 Jennifer Zona,2 Dan Portenier,2 Joshua John Diehl1
1University of Notre Dame, 2Barber Na8onal Ins8tute
• Recently, there has been an increase in research on the clinical
applica8ons of robots for use with individuals with Au8sm Spectrum Disorder (ASD). • Resources are needed for those who want to use robots, both for research and clinical use. • A mul8media database through which researchers and clinicians can share and review different robot behaviors can foster coopera8on and leverage the crea8vity and tes8ng of its contributors.
• Create a free, publicly available mul8media database of therapeu8cally relevant behaviors for the NAO robot (Aldebaran Robo8cs).
• NAO-‐Base is a compendium of robo8c movements we developed for the NAO so that ASD researchers, therapists, schools, and centers can more rapidly share in our socially-‐assis8ve robot therapy research.
NAO-‐Base, which will be made available via a website, includes: • Detailed descrip8ons of each movement • Choregraphe project files that contain the
NAO movement commands needed to program the behavior
• Video clips of the behavior so that users
can preview the movement • Classifica8ons of the robo8c movements
to simplify their iden8fica8on and applica8on
• Our free, publicly available NAO-‐Base has the poten8al to accelerate the research and clinical use of socially-‐assis8ve robots with individuals with ASD .
• NAO-‐Base provides access to a number of pre-‐programmed behaviors for the NAO plaUorm that have been tested in ABA therapy for children with ASD. Website: hVp://funlab.nd.edu • We have gathered clinical data on NAO-‐Base behaviors that can be u8lized by clinicians and researchers using the NAO plaUorm.
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Takayama, L., Dooley, D., & Ju, W. (2011). Expressing thought: improving robot readability with anima8on principles. Proceedings of the 6th interna8onal conference on Human-‐robot interac8on, HRI ’11 (pp. 69–76). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1957656.1957674
Tang, K., et al. (2011). Enhancing empirically supported treatments for au8sm spectrum disorders: A case study using an interac8ve robot. Poster session presented at the mee8ng of Interna8onal Mee8ng for Au8sm Research, Sand Diego, CA.
Villano, M., et al. "DOMER: A Wizard of Oz Interface for using Interac8ve Robots to Scaffold Social Skills for Children with Au8sm Spectrum Disorders". Proceedings of the 6th interna8onal conference on Human-‐robot interac8on. ACM , 2011. 279-‐280.
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• NAO-‐Base is organized into five categories of behavior: Combina8on, Non-‐Verbal, Verbal, Specialty, and Movements in Development. Combina8on Movements-‐ behaviors and speech. Non-‐verbal – movements only. Verbal-‐ speech only. Specialty Movements -‐ unique behaviors for special projects or demonstra8ons. • Using NAO-‐Base, we have gathered clinical data, some of which has been presented at IMFAR (e.g., Diehl et al., 2013;Tang et al., 2011; Klinepeter et al., 2012), indica8ng that many par8cipants make gains in the social behaviors targeted during therapy. Moreover, we have been able to transfer this technology to two non-‐profit ASD programs that now use the technology.
Acknowledgments We want to thank the children and their families that par8cipate in our research. This project was supported in part by grants from NIH Indiana CTSI-‐PDT NIH RR025761, Rodney F Ganey Collabora8ve Community Based Research Grant, Boler Family Founda8on. We also want to thank the UROP Grant Program and ISLA at the University of Notre Dame.
Figure 1: Image from the Choregraphe Interface used to create the movements on the robots.
Figure 2: Screenshot of the online Nao-‐Base displaying one of the main categories, Combina.on Movements.