Vol. 20:2 (2019) ► pp.205–233
Socio-emotional development in high functioning children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a humanoid robot
The use of robots had already been proven to encourage the promotion of social interaction and skills lacking in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), who typically have difficulties in recognizing facial expressions and emotions. The main goal of this research is to study the influence of a humanoid robot to develop socio-emotional skills in children with ASD. The children’s performance in game scenarios aiming to develop facial expressions recognition skills is presented. Along the sessions, children who performed the game scenarios with the robot and the experimenter had a significantly better performance than the children who performed the game scenarios without the robot. The main conclusions of this research support that a humanoid robot is a useful tool to develop socio-emotional skills in the intervention of children with ASD, due to the engagement and positive learning outcome observed.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 2.1Facial expressions displayed by robots
- 2.2Emotion recognition difficulty
- 2.3Research questions
- 3.Methods
- 3.1Ethics statement
- 3.2Participants
- 3.3Procedures
- Performance task
- Practice phase
- 3.4Focus groups
- 3.5The robot
- 3.6Robot’s input and processing
- 3.7Experimental setup
- 3.8Evaluation tools
- 4.Results
- 4.1Comparison of the pre- and post-test data between G1, G2, and G3
- 5.Discussion of the results
- 5.1Summary of hypotheses and implications
- 6.Conclusions and future work
- Acknowledgements
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.15003.cos
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