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SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills

Social behavior for special-needs children is crucial to ensure that the special-needs children know how to communicate and establish social relationship with others. Children with special-needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Down syndrome a...

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Main Author: Mukhtar, Nurul Husna
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2015
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.159592017-01-25T09:35:36Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15959/ SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills Mukhtar, Nurul Husna T Technology (General) Social behavior for special-needs children is crucial to ensure that the special-needs children know how to communicate and establish social relationship with others. Children with special-needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Down syndrome and Slow Learner usually have problems in socializing as they usually have empathy deficit. The current pedagogy used by teachers also are unattractive making them unable to attract the children’s attention and making them unable to stimulate the children’s kinetic senses and tactile senses thus affecting the learning rates of the special-needs children. Therefore, to address this issues, SOCIABOTS, a NAO robotic approach for the special education children to improve their social skills is developed as to aid teachers in their teaching process. This robotic application is able to play shapes game with the special-needs children and dance after they accomplish the task correctly. It is a perfect solution for both of the specialneeds children and the special education teachers as it caters both needs. This robotic module focuses on making learning turn taking attractive to sustain the special-needs children’ attention while stimulating their tactile and kinetic senses. The RAD methodology is used for development of this robotic module. Surveys, interviews and observations are the source of data to gather information and opinion for the development of SOCIABOTS. A shape recognition test is conducted to determine which background color works better in recognizing shapes. A field test at the Sekolah Kebangsaan Sultan Yussuf, Batu Gajah, Perak with 5 special education students was conducted to compare the effectiveness of SOCIABOTS against the current pedagogy used by teachers. The results show that SOCIABOTS helps in sustaining the specialneeds children’ attention and helps in assisting the teachers in teaching. It scores better compared to the current pedagogy that the teachers used in classes. This module is focusing on assisting teachers in their teaching process and helps special-needs children learning taking turns interactively thus improving their social skills. IRC 2015-05 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15959/1/Nurul%20Husna%20Mukhtar_16260.pdf Mukhtar, Nurul Husna (2015) SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills. IRC, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Unpublished)
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Mukhtar, Nurul Husna
SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills
description Social behavior for special-needs children is crucial to ensure that the special-needs children know how to communicate and establish social relationship with others. Children with special-needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Down syndrome and Slow Learner usually have problems in socializing as they usually have empathy deficit. The current pedagogy used by teachers also are unattractive making them unable to attract the children’s attention and making them unable to stimulate the children’s kinetic senses and tactile senses thus affecting the learning rates of the special-needs children. Therefore, to address this issues, SOCIABOTS, a NAO robotic approach for the special education children to improve their social skills is developed as to aid teachers in their teaching process. This robotic application is able to play shapes game with the special-needs children and dance after they accomplish the task correctly. It is a perfect solution for both of the specialneeds children and the special education teachers as it caters both needs. This robotic module focuses on making learning turn taking attractive to sustain the special-needs children’ attention while stimulating their tactile and kinetic senses. The RAD methodology is used for development of this robotic module. Surveys, interviews and observations are the source of data to gather information and opinion for the development of SOCIABOTS. A shape recognition test is conducted to determine which background color works better in recognizing shapes. A field test at the Sekolah Kebangsaan Sultan Yussuf, Batu Gajah, Perak with 5 special education students was conducted to compare the effectiveness of SOCIABOTS against the current pedagogy used by teachers. The results show that SOCIABOTS helps in sustaining the specialneeds children’ attention and helps in assisting the teachers in teaching. It scores better compared to the current pedagogy that the teachers used in classes. This module is focusing on assisting teachers in their teaching process and helps special-needs children learning taking turns interactively thus improving their social skills.
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title SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills
title_short SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills
title_full SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills
title_fullStr SOCIABOTS: A Robotic Approach for Special Education Children to Improve their Social Skills
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