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- Title
Children with autism social engagement in interaction with Nao, an imitative robot.
- Authors
Tapus, Adriana; Peca, Andreea; Aly, Amir; Pop, Cristina; Jisa, Lavinia; Pintea, Sebastian; Rusu, Alina S.; David, Daniel O.
- Abstract
This paper presents a series of 4 single subject experiments aimed to investigate whether children with autism show more social engagement when interacting with the Nao robot, compared to a human partner in a motor imitation task. The Nao robot imitates gross arm movements of the child in real-time. Different behavioral criteria (i.e. eye gaze, gaze shifting, free initiations and prompted initiations of arm movements, and smile/laughter) were analyzed based on the video data of the interaction. The results are mixed and suggest a high variability in reactions to the Nao robot. The results are as follows: For Child2 and Child3, the results indicate no effect of the Nao robot in any of the target variables. Childl and Child4 showed more eye gaze and smile/laughter in the interaction with the Nao robot compared to the human partner and Childl showed a higher frequency of motor initiations in the interaction with the Nao robot compared to the baselines, but not with respect to the human-interaction. The robot proved to be a better facilitator of shared attention only for Child1.
- Subjects
SOCIAL interaction in children; AUTISM in children; HUMAN-robot interaction; MOTOR ability; IMITATIVE behavior
- Publication
Interaction Studies, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
1572-0373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/is.13.3.01tap