Recognizing Anxiety in Autism Children through Blood Pressure Monitoring with a Socially Assistive Robot

Ekawati Prihatini; Faisal Damsi; Yessi Marniati; Selamat Muslimin; Nyayu Latifah Husni; M. Daffa Ramadhan; Wahyu Caesarendra

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Recognizing Anxiety in Autism Children through Blood Pressure Monitoring with a Socially Assistive Robot

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Ekawati Prihatini¹^{, *}, Faisal Damsi¹, Yessi Marniati¹, Selamat Muslimin¹, Nyayu Latifah Husni¹, M. Daffa Ramadhan¹, Wahyu Caesarendra²

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic of Sriwijaya, Palembang, Indonesia

²Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland

^*Corresponding author. Email: ekawati_p@polsri.ac.id

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Ekawati Prihatini

Available Online 1 May 2025.

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Keywords: Socially Assistive Robot (SAR); Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); Anxiety; Digital Tensimeter
Abstract: Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) is used to detect anxiety levels in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a condition that is often accompanied by difficulties in recognising and expressing emotions, including anxiety. The importance of anxiety detection lies in its impact on the behaviour and social interactions of these children. This study prioritises blood pressure monitoring as an indicator to detect anxiety, using a digital tensimeter (MPS20N0040D sensor) integrated in the SAR. Children with ASD, both those with Asperger Syndrome and Classical Autism, interacted with the SAR equipped with a tensimeter. The findings showed that the SAR was able to accurately measure blood pressure and provide an effective indication of anxiety levels, given the strong correlation between blood pressure and anxiety. These results demonstrate the potential of the SAR as a reliable anxiety monitoring tool in children with ASD and a blood pressure detection solution in addition to that performed by medical personnel. The implementation of this SAR technology can be applied to each school or special home for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children by having this robot, making it easier for caregivers or teachers of autism children, they do not need to go to the health center or hospital to find out the child's health condition. In addition, this SAR technology can be implemented in each health center or hospital, which is useful when there are patients who have special needs such as children with autism.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 8th FIRST 2024 International Conference on Global Innovations (FIRST-ESCSI 2024 )
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date: 1 May 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6463-678-9
ISSN: 2352-5401
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-678-9_37 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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