%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Puffy: A Mobile Inflatable Interactive Companion for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder
%+ Politecnico di Milano [Milan] (POLIMI)
%+ Hosei University
%A Garzotto, Franca
%A Gelsomini, Mirko
%A Kinoe, Yosuke
%Z Part 6: Interaction with Children
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 16th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)
%C Bombay, India
%Y Regina Bernhaupt
%Y Girish Dalvi
%Y Anirudha Joshi
%Y Devanuj K. Balkrishan
%Y Jacki O'Neill
%Y Marco Winckler
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017
%V LNCS-10514
%N Part II
%P 467-492
%8 2017-09-25
%D 2017
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-67684-5_29
%K Neurodevelopmental Disorder
%K Children
%K Inflatable robot
%K Soft robotics
%K Socially assistive robotics
%K Autism
%K Down syndrome
%K Intellectual disability
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X Puffy is a robotic companion that has been designed in cooperation with a team of therapists and special educators as a learning & play companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD). Puffy has a combination of features that support multisensory stimuli and multimodal interaction and make this robot unique with respect to existing robotic devices used for children with NDD. The egg-shaped body of Puffy is inflatable, soft, and mobile. Puffy can interpret child’s gestures and movements, facial expressions and emotions; it communicates with the child using voice, lights and projections embedded in its body, as well as movements in space. The paper discusses the principles and requirements underlying the design of Puffy. They take into account the characteristics of NDD and the special needs of children with disorders in the NDD spectrum, and provide guidelines for designers and developers who work in socially assistive robotics for this target group. We also compare Puffy against 21 existing commercial or research robots that have been used with NDD children, and briefly report a preliminary evaluation of our robot.
%G English
%Z TC 13
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01678515/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01678515/file/421760_1_En_29_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01678515
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01678515
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%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-TC13
%~ IFIP-INTERACT
%~ IFIP-LNCS-10514