Department of AI and Data Engineering, Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Title of the Invited Talk: Affective Social Robots and Interaction Studies for Children with Disabilities

Abstract: This talk will summarize the recent works of Cognitive and Social Robotics research group at Istanbul Technical University, on the affective social humanoid robots for the education and health applications of children with disabilities. We develop affective modules to recognize the behaviours, attention, emotion and stress of children based on the data (physiological, facial, audio, an gaze) collected during their interaction with the robots and the sensory setup. We also work on the affect based serious games and exergames for children.