Table 1.
Type of robot-assisted cognitive training and end-user population.
| Application | User population | References |
|---|---|---|
| Social communication skills | Children with ASD; Children with ADHD; Children with ID; People with dementia; People with CP; Older adults with social interaction problems |
Begum et al., 2015; Conti et al., 2015; Costescu et al., 2015; Huskens et al., 2015; Kajopoulos et al., 2015; Miskam et al., 2015; Nunez et al., 2015; Sung et al., 2015; Taheri et al., 2015a, 2018, 2019, 2020; Yu et al., 2015; Zheng et al., 2015, 2016; Huijnen et al., 2016; Ozcana et al., 2016; Salvador et al., 2016; Santatiwongchai et al., 2016; Tariq et al., 2016; Wong and Zhong, 2016; Yun et al., 2016; Barco Martelo and Fosch Villaronga, 2017; Bharatharaj et al., 2017; Esteban et al., 2017; Otaki and Otake, 2017; Rudovic et al., 2017; Wood et al., 2017; David et al., 2018, 2020; Richardson et al., 2018; Scassellati et al., 2018; Ali et al., 2019; Marino et al., 2019; Melo et al., 2019; Sandygulova et al., 2019; Alnajjar et al., 2020 |
| Memory | Children with CP; Older adults without CI; People with mild CI; People with dementia |
Sonntag, 2015; Ahn et al., 2017; Garcia-Sanjuan et al., 2017; Tsardoulias et al., 2017; Paletta et al., 2018; Taranović et al., 2018a,b,c; Tsiakas et al., 2018; Nault et al., 2020; Pino et al., 2020 |
| Concentration | Children with ASD; Children with ADHD |
Tleubayev et al., 2019 |
| Attention | Children with CP; Children with ID; People with mild CI; Older adults without CI; People with severe CI |
Garcia-Sanjuan et al., 2017; Tsardoulias et al., 2017; D'Amico and Guastella, 2019; Lins et al., 2019 |
| Visuo-spatial abilities | Children with impaired spatial abilities and WM | D'Amico and Guastella, 2019 |
| Awareness | People with ABI | Yokota et al., 2019 |
| Cognitive training (No specific cognitive function) |
Children with ASD; People with mild CI; People with dementia; Older adults without CI; People with ID; People post-stroke |
Kim et al., 2015, 2019; Kostavelis et al., 2015; Valent́ı Soler et al., 2015; Agrigoroaie et al., 2016; Coeckelbergh et al., 2016; Demetriadis et al., 2016; Lopez-Samaniego and Garcia-Zapirain, 2016; Salichs et al., 2016, 2018; Tsiakas et al., 2016; Abdollahi et al., 2017; Chu et al., 2017; Darragh et al., 2017; Khosla et al., 2017; Korchut et al., 2017; Shukla et al., 2017, 2019; Javed et al., 2018; Peleka et al., 2018; Rudovic et al., 2018; Andriella et al., 2019a,b, 2020; Law et al., 2019a,b; Pereira et al., 2019; Tokunaga et al., 2019; Calderita et al., 2020; Carros et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2020; Manca et al., 2020; Mois et al., 2020; Schüssler et al., 2020 |
| Disruptive behavior problems | Children with DBD | Rabbitt et al., 2015 |
| Anxiety | People with anxiety | Ab Aziz et al., 2015 |
| Distress | Children with cancer | Alemi et al., 2016 |
| Stress | People with stress | Aminuddin et al., 2016 |
| Psychological healing | Not specified | Kohori et al., 2017 |
| Hypnotherapy | Not specified | Alimardani and Hiraki, 2017 |
| Education | Children with dyslexia; Children with ASD; Children with severe PD; Children with TBI; People with PMLD |
Andruseac et al., 2015; Ioannou et al., 2015; Shukla et al., 2015; Taheri et al., 2016, 2019; Barco Martelo and Fosch Villaronga, 2017; Bharatharaj et al., 2017; van den Heuvel et al., 2017; Clabaugh et al., 2019 |
| Vocational training | People with ASD; People with TBI |
Bozgeyikli et al., 2015 |
CI, Cognitive Impairment; ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorders; ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; ID, Intellectual Disability; CP, Cerebral Palsy; WM, Working memory; ABI, Acquired Brain Injuries; PD, Physical Disability; TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury; PMLD, Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities; DBD, Disruptive Behavior Disorders.