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Proposal of Robot-Interaction Based Intervention for Joint-Attention Development

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International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 (SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018)

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Abstract

The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition that can be highly challenging when facing interaction with others. One of the pivotal social skills that is not fully developed in ASD individuals is the joint-attention, due to high engagement in their own thoughts and emotions. Joint-attention is a base for important social behaviours. At the same time, promising results have arisen from studies on the interaction of social robots with ASD children, arguably because its low emotional evocation. In this paper we discuss an intervention proposal for a robot-interaction aiming to develop join-attention in ASD children. This intervention is based in two activities, each one can be graduated at three different level each, with an increasing level of socialization, in order to help develop this skills in a natural way.

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Leire Ozaeta has been supported by a Predoctoral grant from the Basque Government. This work has been partially supported by the EC through project CybSPEED funded by the MSCA-RISE grant agreement No. 777720.

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  1. Didactics and School Organization, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain

    Itsaso Perez & Itziar Rekalde

  2. Computational Intelligence Group, Department CCIA, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain

    Leire Ozaeta & Manuel Graña

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  1. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country, Sarriena, Vizcaya, Spain

    Manuel Graña

  2. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country, Sarriena, Vizcaya, Spain

    José Manuel López-Guede

  3. Computational Intelligence Group, University of the Basque Country, Sarriena, Vizcaya, Spain

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  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Burgos, Burgos, Spain

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Perez, I., Rekalde, I., Ozaeta, L., Graña, M. (2019). Proposal of Robot-Interaction Based Intervention for Joint-Attention Development. In: Graña, M., et al. International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18. SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94120-2_57

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