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The Role of Small Robots in Designed Play Workshops in Centers of Adults with Cerebral Palsy

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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An experience that took place in ASPACE (Association of People with Cerebral Palsy in Seville) showed that the intervention with games based on tangible devices like small robots is a good alternative in the case of people with cerebral palsy (CP). The aim is to develop skills in three facets: cognitive, motor and social. From three to six sessions with seven subjects allowed obtaining information on the evolution of them and their involvement in the activity.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the staff at ASPACE Seville and Ruben Rodríguez who designed CUBOT.

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  1. Department of Electronic Technology, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain

    Isabel M. Gómez, Rubén Rodríguez, Juan Jesús Otero, Manuel Merino, Alberto J. Molina & Rafael Cabrera

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Correspondence to Isabel M. Gómez .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

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  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

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Gómez, I.M., Rodríguez, R., Otero, J.J., Merino, M., Molina, A.J., Cabrera, R. (2016). The Role of Small Robots in Designed Play Workshops in Centers of Adults with Cerebral Palsy. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_70

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