{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Using Small Humanoid Robots to Detect Autism in Toddlers","authors":[{"name":"Marie D. Manner","slug":"marie-d-manner","given":"Marie D.","family":"Manner","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Autism Spectrum Disorder is a developmental disorder often characterized by limited social skills, repetitive behaviors, obsessions, and/or routines. Using the small humanoid robot NAO, we designed an interactive program to elicit common social cues from toddlers while in the presence of trained psychologists during standard toddler assessments. Our program will capture three different videos of the child-robot interaction and create algorithms to analyze the videos and flag autistic behavior to make diagnosis easier for clinicians. Our novel contributions will be automatic video processing and automatic behavior classification for clinicians to use with toddlers, validated on a large number of subjects and using a reproducible and portable robotic program for the NAO robot.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/639","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0639.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/639.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/639","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Doctoral Consortium","track":"Doctoral Consortium","number":639,"pages":{"first":4383,"last":4383},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}