Can Non-Humanoid Social Robots Reduce Workload of Special Educators : An Online and In-Premises Field Study
Nabanita Paul Siddharth Ramesh Chiranjib Bhattacharya Jayashree Ramesh Priya Vijayan Nabanita Paul Siddharth Ramesh Chiranjib Bhattacharya Jayashree Ramesh Priya Vijayan
Although Socially Assistive Robotics have been used in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) interventions, such studies often exclude Special Educators (SEs) and often use expensive humanoid robots. In this paper, we investigate whether non-humanoid toy robots can act as teaching aids in ASD Education, in particular, can they reduce the workload of SEs. We target two most common yet divergent problems f...