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The Research on Serious Games in Social Skills Training for Children with Autism

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E-Learning and Games (Edutainment 2018)

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In recent years, the number of children with autism has risen sharply. It brings tremendous pain to their family. However, in many developing countries, for those autistic children, the number of rehabilitation agencies is rare, the training method is monotonous, and the rehabilitation cost is very high. Therefore, it has important practical significance to find a new effective and costless way for them. On the basis of summarizing the existing related work, this article develops a serious game prototype to assists social skills training for children with autism. The experimental results show that the emotional-based somatosensory game can significantly improve children’s interests in learning. The serious game could be a new technical solution for the adjuvant treatment for children with autism.

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This work was sponsored by the Project of Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan in Zhejiang (2019PY077).

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  1. College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University, No. 505, Yuxiu Road, Zhuangshi, Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

    Tingting Liu & Jin Wang

  2. Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, No. 818, Fenghua Road, Jiangbei, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

    Zhen Liu & Yanjie Chai

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  1. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Abdennour El Rhalibi

  2. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  3. Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Haiyan Jin

  4. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Dandan Ding

  5. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

    Andres A. Navarro-Newball

  6. Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Yinghui Wang

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Liu, T., Liu, Z., Chai, Y., Wang, J. (2019). The Research on Serious Games in Social Skills Training for Children with Autism. In: El Rhalibi, A., Pan, Z., Jin, H., Ding, D., Navarro-Newball, A., Wang, Y. (eds) E-Learning and Games. Edutainment 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23712-7_46

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