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Social Personalized Human-Machine Interaction for People with Autism: Defining User Profiles and First Contact with a Robot

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Pauline Chevalier,

Adriana Tapus,

Jean-Claude Martin,

Brice IsableuAuthors Info & Claims

HRI'15 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2701973.2702027

Published: 02 March 2015 Publication History

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Our research aims to develop a new personalized social interaction model between a humanoid robot and/or a virtual agent and an individual suffering of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), so as to enhance his/her social and communication skills. Because of the intra-individual variability among the ASD population, our objective is to propose a customized social interaction for each individual. In light of the ASD impact on vision and motor processing [1], [2], and in order to define individual's profile, we posit that the individual's reliance to proprioceptive and kinematic visual cues will affect the way he/she interacts with a social agent. A first experiment that defines each participants' perceptivo-cognitive and sensorimotor profile with respect to the integration of visual inputs has already been conducted. We also presented the Nao robot to 4 children with ASD, and analyzed their behavior prior to their profiles. First results are promising.

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Robaczewski ABouchard JBouchard KGaboury S(2020)Socially Assistive Robots: The Specific Case of the NAOInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-020-00664-713:4(795-831)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2020
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Social Personalized Human-Machine Interaction for People with Autism: Defining User Profiles and First Contact with a Robot
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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HRI'15 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

March 2015

336 pages

ISBN:9781450333184

DOI:10.1145/2701973

General Chairs:
Julie A. Adams
Vanderbilt University, USA
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William Smart
Oregon State University, USA
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Bilge Mutlu
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Leila Takayama
Google[x], USA

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Lambert ANorouzi NBruder GWelch G(2020)A Systematic Review of Ten Years of Research on Human Interaction with Social RobotsInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2020.180117236:19(1804-1817)Online publication date: 24-Aug-2020
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Robaczewski ABouchard JBouchard KGaboury S(2020)Socially Assistive Robots: The Specific Case of the NAOInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-020-00664-713:4(795-831)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2020
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