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Article Dans Une Revue Interaction Studies Année : 2012

Children with Autism Social Engagement in Interaction with Nao, an Imitative Robot - A Series of Single Case Experiments

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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. Child1 and Child4 showed more eye gaze and smile/laughter in the interaction with the Nao robot compared to the human partner and Child1 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.
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hal-01265990 , version 1 (03-02-2016)

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Adriana Tapus, Andreea Peca, Amir Aly, Cristina Pop, Lavinia Jisa, et al.. Children with Autism Social Engagement in Interaction with Nao, an Imitative Robot - A Series of Single Case Experiments. Interaction Studies, 2012, 13 (3), pp.315-347. ⟨hal-01265990⟩

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