TY - JOUR
T1 - A hybrid system to support the psychological intervention for children with autism
T2 - A proposal based on knowledge modeling and intelligent technologies
AU - Robles-Bykbaev, Vladimir
AU - Galán-Mena, Jorge
AU - López-Nores, Martín
AU - Robles-Bykbaev, Yaroslava
AU - Cornejo-Reyes, Javier
AU - Quisi-Peralta, Diego
AU - Pazos-Arias, José
AU - Lima-Juma, Diego
AU - León-Wong, Verónica Cevallos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018, IGI Global.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that 1 in 160 children present an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, the real estimation in low- and middle-income countries can be higher and currently is so far unknown. In many Latin American countries, it is essential to develop intelligent tools that can provide support during the psychological diagnosis and intervention of children with ASD. To this aim, this article presents an approach that models the most relevant elements of rehabilitation/educational activities for children with ASD and discuss how to support them through robotic assistants, mobile applications and Multi-Sensory Stimulation Environments (MSEE). The authors tested the proposed system in four different real scenarios: the perception of 47 children without ASD concerning the robotic assistant, the feasibility of using ontology-based reasoning to select therapeutic activities, the opinion of 9 experts on ASD regarding the MSSE and the perception of 36 children with ASD about the robotic assistant.
AB - The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that 1 in 160 children present an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, the real estimation in low- and middle-income countries can be higher and currently is so far unknown. In many Latin American countries, it is essential to develop intelligent tools that can provide support during the psychological diagnosis and intervention of children with ASD. To this aim, this article presents an approach that models the most relevant elements of rehabilitation/educational activities for children with ASD and discuss how to support them through robotic assistants, mobile applications and Multi-Sensory Stimulation Environments (MSEE). The authors tested the proposed system in four different real scenarios: the perception of 47 children without ASD concerning the robotic assistant, the feasibility of using ontology-based reasoning to select therapeutic activities, the opinion of 9 experts on ASD regarding the MSSE and the perception of 36 children with ASD about the robotic assistant.
KW - Autism Spectrum Disorder
KW - Mobile Applications
KW - Multi-Sensory Stimulation Environments
KW - Ontology
KW - Robotic Assistant
KW - TEACCH Method
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059759753&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4018/IJESMA.2018100105
DO - 10.4018/IJESMA.2018100105
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059759753
SN - 1941-627X
VL - 10
SP - 71
EP - 100
JO - International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications
JF - International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications
IS - 4
ER -