Social Personalized Human-Machine Interaction for People with Autism: Defining User Profiles and First Contact with a Robot
Résumé
Our research aims to develop a new personalized social interaction model between a humanoid robot and/or a virtual agent and an individual suffering of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), so as to enhance his/her social and communication skills. Because of the intra-individual variability among the ASD population, our objective is to propose a customized social interaction for each individual. In light of the ASD impact on vision and motor processing [1], [2], and in order to define individual's profile, we posit that the individual's reliance to proprioceptive and kinematic visual cues will affect the way he/she interacts with a social agent. A first experiment that defines each participants' perceptivo-cognitive and sensorimotor profile with respect to the integration of visual inputs has already been conducted. We also presented the Nao robot to 4 children with ASD, and analyzed their behavior prior to their profiles. First results are promising.