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The LISSA Virtual Human and ASD Teens: An Overview of Initial Experiments

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016)

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We summarize an exploratory investigation into using an autonomous conversational agent for improving the communication skills of teenagers with autism. The system conducts a natural conversation with the user and gives real-time and post-session feedback on the user’s nonverbal behavior. We obtained promising results and ideas for improvements in preliminary experiments with five autism spectrum disorder teens.

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported by NSF EAGER grant IIS-1543758 and DARPA grant W911NF-15-1-0542. Many thanks to our student experimenters and subjects.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Seyedeh Zahra Razavi, Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Lenhart K. Schubert & Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque

  2. School of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Tristram H. Smith

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Correspondence to Seyedeh Zahra Razavi .

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    David Traum

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Stefan Scherer

  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Anton Leuski

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Razavi, S.Z., Ali, M.R., Smith, T.H., Schubert, L.K., Hoque, M.(. (2016). The LISSA Virtual Human and ASD Teens: An Overview of Initial Experiments. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_55

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