The Huggable Social Robot Probo for Social Story Telling for Robot Assisted Therapy with ASD Children
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Robotics and Multibody Mechanics Research Group, Brussels, Belgium 2 Babes-Bolyai University; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 3 Howest University College, Industrial Design Center, Kortrijk, Belgium 4 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA 5 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Clinical and Life Span Psychology Group, Brussel, Belgium [email protected] http://probo.vub.ac.be
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