The project consortium is multidisciplinary and combines partners with competence in interventions in autism, robotics, and automatic emotion recognition from Poland, UK, Germany, North Macedonia, and Turkey. The methodological approach includes systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis, data analysis based on statistical and machine learning approach, and as well as observational studies. We have planned double-loop of observational studies. The first round is to analyze the application of emotion recognition methods in robot-based interaction in autism, and especially to compare diverse channels for observation of emotion symptoms. The lessons learned would be formulated in the form of guidelines. The guidelines would be evaluated with AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines, Research, and Evaluation) instrument and confirmed with the second round of observational studies.

Legal name
Country
Role
Gdańsk University of Technology
Poland
Coordinator
The University of Hertfordshire Higher
Education Corporation
United Kingdom
Partner
Istanbul Teknik Universitesi
Turkey
Partner
Yeditepe University
Turkey
Partner
Macedonian Association for
Applied Psychology
The Republic of
North Macedonia
Partner
Universitaet Augsburg
Germany
Partner

EMBOA team

Agnieszka Landowska

Agnieszka Landowska

Gdańsk University of Technology
She is a leader of the EMBOA project and strives to make planned things done. Her dream was to bring Kaspar social robot to Poland and to show it in therapeutic centers for autism. She hopes to see smiles on the children faces while interacting with Kaspar. Contact her at Gdansk University of Technology: nailie@pg.edu.pl
Duygun Erol Barkana

Duygun Erol Barkana

Yeditepe University
She is a partner of the EMBOA project. Her dream was to apply emotion recognition techniques in robot-supported intervention in children with autism. She hopes to develop systems that will have positive affect on children with autism. Contact her at Yeditepe University: duygunerol@yeditepe.edu.tr