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An End-User Interface to Generate Homeostatic Behavior for NAO Robot in Robot-Assisted Social Therapies

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Homeostatic drive theory is a popular approach for decision-making of robot behavior in social robotic research. It is potentially to be used in social therapies. To increase the involvement of end-users in the robot’s control, we present an end-user interface allowing the therapists to generate homeostatic behavior for NAO robot in social skills training for children. We demonstrate the system by two interactions in which the robot homeostatic behavior is adapted to children’s behavior. The result shows that the system provides a practical solution for therapists to implement interaction scenarios to robot behavior.

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The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission 7th Framework Program as a part of the project DREAM grant no. 611391.

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  1. Robotics & Multibody Mechanics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Pablo Gómez Esteban, Greet Van de Perre, Dirk Lefeber & Bram Vanderborght

  2. Department of Clinical and Life Span Psychology Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Ramona Simut

  3. Flanders Make, Strategic Research Centre Manufacturing Industry, Lommel, Belgium

    Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Pablo Gómez Esteban, Greet Van de Perre, Dirk Lefeber & Bram Vanderborght

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Cao, HL. et al. (2017). An End-User Interface to Generate Homeostatic Behavior for NAO Robot in Robot-Assisted Social Therapies. In: Rojas, I., Joya, G., Catala, A. (eds) Advances in Computational Intelligence. IWANN 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10306. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59147-6_52

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