4 papers
Designing Social Robots for Inclusive Child Wellbeing Assessment: Insights from Communities Supporting Developmental Language Disorder and Forced Migration
Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Yue Lou, Alva Markelius +7
Assessing children's wellbeing and mental health can be particularly challenging for children experiencing communication barriers, such as children with Developmental Language Diso…
Robot-Led Vision Language Model Wellbeing Assessment of Children
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Guy Laban +4
This study presents a novel robot-led approach to assessing children's mental wellbeing using a Vision Language Model (VLM). Inspired by the Child Apperception Test (CAT), the soci…
A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Guy Laban, Tamsin Ford +2
Socially Assistive Robots are studied in different Child-Robot Interaction settings. However, logistical constraints limit accessibility, particularly affecting timely support for…
Robotising Psychometrics: Validating Wellbeing Assessment Tools in Child-Robot Interactions
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Guy Laban, Tamsin Ford +2
The interdisciplinary nature of Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) fosters incorporating measures and methodologies from many established domains. However, when employing CRI approaches…