The use of robots in social behavior tutoring for children with ASD
conference paper
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) may benefit from 'self care' solutions which use social robotics principles. Specifically, the authors propose to use robots in various ways to help such children with the acquisition and training of important pragmatic social behaviors, for example greetings. In order to create such a learning environment, knowledge about 'typical social behavior' and 'ASD deviations in social behavior' will be modelled. The main propositions, for which some evidence already exists, are that (1) interaction with (robotic) technology is free of social tension for children with ASD and (2) this can therefore, by removing inhibitions, aid the acquisition and training of social skills, and, moreover (3), that these skills can be transferred and used productively in social interaction with other humans.
Topics
Autism spectrum disordersChild developmentGreetingsSocial roboticsAutism spectrum disordersChild developmentChildren with autismsGreetingsLearning environmentsSelf-careSocial behaviorSocial interactionsSocial roboticsSocial skillsSocial tensionsDiseasesEducationErgonomicsHuman robot interactionRoboticsEconomic and social effects
TNO Identifier
429765
ISBN
9789490818043
Source title
28th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2010, ECCE 2010, 25 August 2010 through 27 August 2010, Delft. Conference code: 84620
Pages
371-372
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