CAN THE SOCIAL ROBOT PROBO HELP CHILDREN WITH AUTISM TO IDENTIFY SITUATION-BASED EMOTIONS? A SERIES OF SINGLE CASE EXPERIMENTS

被引：40

作者：

Anamaria, Pop Cristina ^{[1
]}

Ramona, Simut ^{[2
]}

Sebastian, Pintea ^{[1
]}

Jelle, Saldien ^{[3
]}

Alina, Rusu ^{[1
]}

Daniel, David ^{[1
,4
]}

Johan, Vanderfaeillie ^{[2
]}

Dirk, Lefeber ^{[5
]}

Bram, Vanderborght ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Babes Bolyai, Dept Clin Psychol & Psychotherapy, R-3400 Cluj Napoca, Romania

[2] Vrije Univ Brussel, Clin & Life Span Psychol Dept, Brussels, Belgium

[3] Howest Univ Coll, Ind Design Ctr, Kortrijk, Belgium

[4] Mt Sinai Sch Med, New York, NY 10029 USA

[5] Vrije Univ Brussel, Robot & Multibody Mech Res Grp, Brussels, Belgium

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS | 2013年 / 10卷 / 03期

关键词：

Autism spectrum disorders; situation-based emotions; robot assisted therapy; emotion recognition; theory of mind; INTERVENTION; RECOGNITION; PEOPLE; EXPRESSIONS; SPECTRUM; BEHAVIOR; MIND;

D O I：

10.1142/S0219843613500254

中图分类号：

TP24 [机器人技术];

学科分类号：

080202 ; 1405 ;

摘要：

Children with autism spectrum disorders have difficulties in identifying situation-based emotions, which is a fundamental ability for mind reading. Social robots received increased attention as assisting tools for improving the social and emotional skills of children with autism. This study investigates whether the social robot Probo can help children with autism spectrum disorders to enhance their performance in identifying situation-based emotions. Three participants (age between 5 and 6) diagnozed with autism spectrum disorders were included in a single case AB experimental design, with intersubjects replications. The results show that children's performance improved with moderate to large effect sizes in identifying both sadness and happiness. Based on these results, we intend to perform more extensive investigations regarding the effectiveness of robot assisted therapy in improving social-emotional abilities for children with autism spectrum disorders.

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