Social Haptic Interaction between Robots and Children with Disabilities

Abstract

Social robots are becoming more prevalent in our daily environments. In these contexts, many researchers have studied how robots communicate with people. However, not enough attention has been paid to social interaction between robots and people with disabilities. In particular, little attention has been devoted to deaf and blind children interacting with robots. In this work we propose a physical haptic interaction mode that allows the communication between anthropomorphic robots and people with visual-auditory impairments. We have developed a scenario where this new interaction mode will be evaluated.