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Multi-Purposeful Activities for Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy: What Works Best for Children's Social Outcomes?

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Aida Zhanatkyzy,

Zhansaule Telisheva,

Nazerke Rakhymbayeva,

Anara SandygulovaAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 34 - 43

https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576963

Published: 13 March 2023 Publication History

Abstract

This research designed and applied 24 multi-purposeful robot activities of varying social mediation levels in a multiple-session experiment with 34 children of diverse autistic characteristics in a rehabilitation setting. This paper explores what type of robot activities can meet individual needs to bring more socio-behavioral progress and juxtaposes child characteristics to identify behavioral outcomes in each activity. This knowledge would help us to respond to the question of what activity types suit specific subgroups of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our data analysis included coding 48.5 hours of video data for a total of 14 measures to fully capture children's activity-based socio-emotional outcomes. Overall, the activities on varying social mediation levels brought more or less positive social outcomes to all children. However, children showed some different behavioral outcomes as mediated by core autism-related and age-specific characteristics. This study provides in-depth accounts of what might be helpful in designing and applying multi-purposeful activities responsive to the diverse needs of children.

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Neerincx AVeldhuis DMasthoff Jde Graaf M(2024)Co-designing a social robot for child health careInternational Journal of Child-Computer Interaction10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.10061538:COnline publication date: 27-Feb-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100615
Currie JGiannaccini MBach P(2024)Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot ActionInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-024-01105-5Online publication date: 17-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-024-01105-5

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