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Creating Vignettes for a Robot-Supported Education Solution for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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As part of the work in developing a robotic toolkit to help children with ASD develop their social and communication skills, we have adapted a method for creating vignettes that has been fruitful in other studies. We present a brief background of earlier work that has been done with robots and children with ASD, the idea behind our toolkit, and how we have involved the different stakeholders so far. We then present our updated method for creating vignettes and how we plan to run our workshops. We close with discussing some current challenges and next steps.

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This work is partly supported by the Research Council of Norway as part of the RObot Supported Education for children with ASD (ROSA) project, under grant agreement 321821. We would also like to thank the other project members, and a special thank you to the teachers and students at Frydenhaug skole for their participation in the project.

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Schulz, T., Fuglerud, K.S. (2022). Creating Vignettes for a Robot-Supported Education Solution for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In: Ferrández Vicente, J.M., Álvarez-Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz López, F., Adeli, H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience: Affective Analysis and Health Applications. IWINAC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06242-1_32

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