Sebastian Pintea

Pop, Cristina A., Sebastian Pintea, Bram Vanderborght and Daniel O. David 2014 Enhancing play skills, engagement and social skills in a play task in ASD children by using robot-based interventions. A pilot study Interaction Studies 15:2, pp. 292–320 | Article

Tapus, Adriana, Andreea Peca, Amir Aly, Cristina A. Pop, Lavinia Jisa, Sebastian Pintea, Alina S. Rusu and Daniel O. David 2012 Children with autism social engagement in interaction with Nao, an imitative robot: A series of single case experiments Interaction Studies 13:3, pp. 315–347 | Article

This paper presents a series of 4 single subject experiments aimed to investigate whether children with autism show more social engagement when interacting with the Nao robot, compared to a human partner in a motor imitation task. The Nao robot imitates gross arm movements of the child in real-time. read more

Vanderborght, Bram, Ramona Simut, Jelle Saldien, Cristina A. Pop, Alina S. Rusu, Sebastian Pintea, Dirk Lefeber and Daniel O. David 2012 Using the social robot probo as a social story telling agent for children with ASD Interaction Studies 13:3, pp. 348–372 | Article

This paper aims to study the role of the social robot Probo in providing assistance to a therapist for robot assisted therapy (RAT) with autistic children. Children with autism have difficulties with social interaction and several studies indicate that they show preference toward interaction with… read more

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