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An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016)

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This work explores the use of a social robot as an assistive agent during therapy sessions, in order to assist children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), through a Tangram game. This experiment has two conditions: the Tutor Mode - the robot gives help whenever the child needs; and the Peer Mode - the robot plays with the child in turn-taking. The results showed that, in the TM, the robot was capable of stimulating children’s attention towards the game and to assist them most of the times. In the PM, the robot also stimulated children’s attention to the game and was able to establish turns for most participants.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and its Information and Communications Technologies Institute, under project CMUP-ERI/HCI/0051/2013. P. Alves-Oliveira acknowledges a FCT grant ref. SFRH/BD/110223/2015.

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  1. INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Beatriz Bernardo, Francisco S. Melo & Ana Paiva

  2. INESC-ID and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal

    Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

  3. Centro de Desenvolvimento da Criança, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal

    Maria Graça Santos

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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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Bernardo, B., Alves-Oliveira, P., Santos, M.G., Melo, F.S., Paiva, A. (2016). An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism. 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_63

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