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This article introduces "Baby Robot", a robot designed to improve infants' and toddlers' motor skills. This robot is a car-like toy that moves autonomously by using reinforcement learning and computer vision. Its behaviour consists of escaping from a ...

With the spread of smartphones, mothers who operate smartphones while breast-feeding are increasing. This kind of activities are sometimes defined as a bad behavior although this is one of few repose in parenting. In this paper, we investigate if the ...

We know very little about the use of computers by children under the age of three. While few children in that age range used computers before the advent of smartphones and tablets, these devices have made computers much more accessible to infants and ...

Tots on Bots is a research project developing robotic-based mobility platforms for children with motor impairments. Independent mobility is crucial in the development of typical infants, and is missed by children with physical disabilities. We are ...

In this paper, we present a palmprint recognition method which combines local binary pattern (LBP) and cellular automata. The LBP descriptor is proposed as a unifying texture model that describes the formation of a texture with micro-textons and their ...

In this paper, we propose a novel online newborn personal authentication system based on footprint recognition. Compared with traditional offline footprinting scheme, the proposed system can capture digital footprint images with high quality. We also ...

Newborn and infant personal authentication is a critical issue for hospital, birthing centers and other institutions where multiple births occur, which has not been well studied in the past. In this paper, we propose a novel online newborn personal ...

While there have been great advances in quantification of the genotype of organisms, including full genomes for many species, the quantification of phenotype is at a comparatively primitive stage. Part of the reason is technical difficulty: the ...

A comprehensive health technology assessment is needed to meet the demands of holistic health care. We performed a qualitative study to describe the parents experiences of the nursing care of sick newborn infants. The parents of seven full-term infants in ...