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for the use of early treatment of children with ASD
are the ability to express various emotions, to carry
out social behaviours, to hold eye contact with the
children, and to imitate actions. When designing, the
concept of appearance, behaviour and character are
to be set up preferentially. For the design of an
appearance, a proportion of head, body and tail
including ears and face as well as forehead, eyes,
nose, mouth and chin must be studied. For the
design of behaviour, the relationship between
emotional expression and an action must be grasped.
Also, an effective action must be investigated and
established for an early treatment of children with
ASD. For the design of character, it needs a
personification. A desirable method of
personification must be established considered with
the characters of both animal and human.
Joint movement, facial expression, and sensory
system were proposed in order to realize their
function including how to install and control the
body. The proposed robot will have 8 joints in the
body, 8 joints in the face, and be deployed over than
10 kinds of sensory system with sound management
and touch detection.
The insecticidal effect against house dust
mite of ethanol extracts from three herb teas
and cacao was examined in the study for
developing an eco-friendly material. An effort
to sophisticate this early developmental model
must be continued. Follow-up studies that take
this early developmental cat model and evaluate
its effectiveness and improve its weaknesses
through actual experiments should be carried
out.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the National Research
Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean
Government (NRF-2013R1A2A2A04014808).
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