人型機器人結合音樂治療對自閉症兒童之影響

Using a Humanoid Robot for Music Therapy with Autistic Children

彭映樺(Peng, Ying Hua)

指導教授 ： 許宏銘

國立中正大學/工學院/電機工程學系/碩士(2014年)

摘要

自1998年來將機器人運用於幫助自閉症孩童已有14年歷史，機器人身為玩具的同時它也是一個社交觀察媒介，藉由觀察自閉症孩童與機器人的互動玩樂，我們可以從中得到自閉症孩童的行為模式並瞭解他們。透過DARwIn-OP此人形機器人來完成更進階的互動，並可幫助自閉症孩童增進其社會技能的學習。我們希望經由設計機器人的行為，令機器人本身不再是一件被「玩」的玩具，而是一個可以主動與自閉症孩童互動的良好玩伴。根據這點，我們同時也想探討孩童對於機器人集中力的影響。另外，我們希望透過音樂讓自閉症孩童與機器人能有更加有趣且良好的互動，並且增進他們與人互動上的社交能力。在實踐上，我們希望教育者可以透過我們的設計來帶領孩童與自主或半自主機器人作互動玩樂。

關鍵字

音樂治療 ； 互動式玩樂 ； 自閉症孩童 ； 人形機器人 ； 機器人玩伴

並列摘要

Robots have been used not only as a toy but also as a social mediator that interacted with autistic children since 1998. Our goal is to build an advanced interaction scenario between the robot and an autistic child. In this way, we try to improve his/her social skills. The training is done by a humanoid robot named DARwIn-OP. Eventually, we want to design the behaviors of the robot that can make it not only as a toy but also as a playmate, and the robot is able to take initiative interacting with autistic children. Practically the educator is going to trigger one of several different interaction games, within one game the robot acts autonomously or semi-autonomously. From the point of research, we also plan to quantify in several ways how much attention of the child can be attracted by the robot. We also use music as a mediator between robot and autistic children. Our hope is that the interaction can improve their social skills and evaluate these measures for the practical applicability.

並列關鍵字

Music therapy ； Interaction play ； Autistic children ； Humanoid robot ； Robot Playmate

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