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The involvement of arts and psychology elements in robotics research for children with cognitive impairment is still limited. However, the combination of robots, arts, psychology and education in the development of robots could significantly contribute to the improvement of social interaction skills among children with cognitive impairment. In this article, we would like to share our work on building and innovating the costume of LUCA’s robot, which incorporating the positive psychological perspectives and arts values for children with cognitive impairment. Our goals are (1) to educate arts students in secondary arts school on the importance of social robot appearance for children with cognitive impairment, and (2) to select the best costume for future child-robot interaction study with children with cognitive impairments.
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Luthffi Idzhar Ismail received a Postgraduate Education Fund from Majlis Amanah Rakyat, MARA (MARA REF: 330407445608). This work was partially funded by the Niche Research Grant Scheme (NRGS):600-RMI/NRGS 5/3 (11/2013).
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Ismail, L.I., Hanapiah, F.A., wyffels, F. (2020). User-Driven Design of Robot Costume for Child-Robot Interactions Among Children with Cognitive Impairment. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_36
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