Project description DREAM will deliver next-generation RET, developing clinical interactive capacities for supervised autonomy therapeutic robots Show the project objective Hide the project objective In clinical interventions, skill transfer from therapist to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) benefits from the inclusion of expressive artefacts such as puppets and animated characters. Well-designed robotic agents have proven to be particularly effective and are becoming an increasingly important tool for mediating between therapists and ASD children in robot-assisted therapy (RAT). However, therapeutic interventions require significant human resources over extended periods. Consequently, to make a significant difference, therapeutic robots need to have a greater degree of autonomy than current remote-controlled systems. Furthermore, they have to act on more than just the child?s directly-observable movements because emotions and intentions are even more important for selecting effective therapeutic responses.The next generation of RAT, which we refer to as robot-enhanced therapy (RET), will be able to infer the ASD children?s psychological disposition and assess their behaviour in order to select therapeutic actions. Since children require therapy tailored to individual needs RET robots will provide this too. Driven by therapists, DREAM will deliver next-generation RET, developing clinical interactive capacities for supervised autonomy therapeutic robots; robots that can operate autonomously for limited periods under the supervision of a therapist. The DREAM robot will also function as a diagnostic tool by collecting clinical data on the patient. It will operate under strict ethical rules and the DREAM project will provide policy guidelines to govern ethically-compliant deployment of supervised autonomy RET.The core of the DREAM RET robot is its cognitive model which interprets sensory data (body movement and emotion appearance cues), uses these percepts to assess the child?s behaviour by learning to map them to therapist-specified behavioural classes, and then learns to map these child behaviours to appropriate therapist-specified robot actions. Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.2.1 - Robotics, Cognitive Systems & Smart Spaces, Symbiotic Interaction Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator HOGSKOLAN I SKOVDE EU contribution € 1 499 273,00 Address HOGSKOLEVAGEN 1 54 128 Skovde Sweden See on map Region Södra Sverige Västsverige Västra Götalands län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL Belgium EU contribution € 1 209 480,00 Address PLEINLAAN 2 1050 Bruxelles / Brussel See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. 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