Brian Scassellati Trivia
What did he learn following exposing the children to the Robot and then seeing them in the playground?
Children with ASD connected with the robot in ways that they were unable to do with other people.
Which of the following is a factor for the children's preference in robots: Complexity, Human-Like Appearance, Dramatic VS Subtle Social Cues?
None!
What are some issues with robots?
Compared to virtual agents
Robots are;
Expensive
Difficult to mass produced
Fragile
Hard to maintain
Difficult to customize
How much daily training time did families with children with ASD do?
Everyone of the kids in the families did 30 minutes of social skills testing a day
Best Two Numbers!
6-7
What were the two people's professions that he did not want to talk to?
Pediatricians
What are at least four things the robots were able to teach?
Nutrition to 1st grade
Language to 2nd grade
Anti-Bullying to K-3rd grade
Adult Learning Astronomy
What did the robot ask the undergraduates to do in the professor's office?
Throw $500 worth of textbooks in the trash can.
Why is the Home Environment the Most Complex and what is one location the robots were placed?
Constant Changes
Lack of Contact
Intesive Difference
Lack of Consistency
On a Window and In a Basement
What Best Basketball Player Was Talked About in the Student Speaker Series?
LEBRON 🔥🔥🔥🔥
How long did it take him to build his first robot for the pediatricians?
LESS THAN 24 HOURS
What made robots in particular essential for this sort of work?
Robots are social but not too social!
What fraction of the them followe through with the instructions when the robot was there?
2/3
What did a family do to guarantee time with the robot?
Despite the father moving away with the older neurotypical child, the mother and younger child with ASD stayed behind to ensure that the child had access to this fundamental therapy.
The Buttery
Name Three Features of the Original Robot
Robot had a purplebody
Mouth was a pink hairtie
Eyebrows are light purple
Eyes are blue and ping pong balls
Infants tend to use two hands with practicing motor skills, so the involvement of only one hand to mimic waves, for example, acted as a tell.
What are the two things robots increase and why?
Compliance
As per the Robot in Office Experiment
Learning Gains
As per the Nanogram experiment
What were two things the parents noticed in their kids, and how long did they last after the therapy?
Eye Contact and Social Initiation
30 Days
How applicants were there and how many did they accept?
13,000+
1,800
What was the name of one of the pediatricians?
Fred
What made it difficult for children to differentiate between the verbs 'to do' and 'to make' in Spanish when the chick robot was placed in an environment with Native Speakers? What made it succeed and become integral?
The Robot knew the 12 Different Context Rules and was able to personalize the learning to the child respectively.
By what mark did a human impact participants time difference in the Nanogram experiment?
-7 Minutes
What did the professor compare bedrooms to being more complex than?
What did Riana find under her bed one day?
Fluffy CockaRoach