Do Sensory Preferences of Children with Autism Impact an Imitation Task with a Robot?

Chevalier, Pauline; Raiola, Gennaro; Martin, Jean‐Claude; Isableu, Brice; Bazile, Christophe; Tapus, Adriana

doi:10.1145/2909824.3020234

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“…Arias-Aguilar et al ( 2017) designed a child-robot interaction in which NAO proposes typically developing children to a "play" by imitating the same arms and legs movements that it makes itself. Chevalier et al (2017) designed a playful task in which NAO performed several hand gestures in the background of music with the same duration and rhythm. Both the robot and children with ASD had to imitate each other's arm movements, but children were a bit confused to initiate them.…”

Section: Nao As a Tool For Therapy And Learningmentioning

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10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

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The evolving field of human-robot interaction (HRI) necessitates that we better understand how social robots operate and interact with humans. This scoping review provides an overview of about 300 research works focusing on the use of the NAO robot from 2010 to 2020. This study presents one of the most extensive and inclusive pieces of evidence on the deployment of the humanoid NAO robot and its global reach. Unlike most reviews, we provide both qualitative and quantitative results regarding how NAO is being used and what has been achieved so far. We analyzed a wide range of theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions that provide multidimensional insights, such as general trends in terms of application, the robot capabilities, its input and output modalities of communication, and the human-robot interaction experiments that featured NAO (e.g. number and roles of participants, design, and the length of interaction). Lastly, we derive from the review some research gaps in current state-of-the-art and provide suggestions for the design of the next generation of social robots.

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Section: Nao As a Tool For Therapy And Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

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“…They suggested the social assistive robots as an effective tool to promote the imitation skills of the children with ASD. The effects of the sensory profiles of children with ASD on the imitation in interaction with a Nao robot are assessed on 12 children with ASD [28]. The experimental results showed that there was a strong correlation between an overreliance on proprioceptive information (an ability to determine the body segment positions), hyporeactivity to visual motions (eye contact, following the gaze to others, joint attention), and difficulties in imitation tasks and then more engagement in interactions with a robot.…”

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Social engagement of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in imitating a humanoid robot: a case study

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Our study aims to compare the social engagement behaviors of the children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in interaction with a kid-size humanoid robot and a human partner in a motor imitation task on two children with ASD with high functioning. The evaluation measures (e.g., eye gaze direction, gaze shifting, completeness/correctness of the movements, initiation with/without prompt, verbal instruction, and time differences between starting/finishing the robot's movement and the child's movement) are extracted from the recorded videos of the trial sessions and analyzed to assess the engagement of the children in interaction with the robot or a human partner. The results indicate that the eye gaze duration to the robot, the frequency of the initiation without prompt, and the frequency of the complete and correct movements for Child 1 in the robot condition are higher compared to the human condition, while these criteria for Child 2 in the robot condition are slightly less compared to the human condition. Also, the frequency of the gaze shifting for Child 1 in the robot condition is lower compared to the human condition, while for Child 2, it is slightly higher compared to the human condition. Moreover, both children show desirable results in the case of the frequency of the required verbal instructions, and finished the movements before the robot and started after the robot most time. Finally, the study can suggest child-robot interaction to improve the social engagement of some children with ASD.

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“…Human Robot Interaction (HRI) studies have mainly explored imitation and mirroring through body gesture and found promising effects on children's social behaviors [3], [17]- [19]. In [3], autistic children who understood that the robot was mirroring their gestures manifested positive affect through vocalizations, suggesting a "robot mirror" may be entertaining.…”

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Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions

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We present design strategies for Human Robot Interaction for schoolaged autistic children with limited receptive language. Applying these strategies to the DE-ENIGMA project (large EU project addressing emotion recognition in autistic children) supported development of a new activity for in facial expression imitation whereby the robot imitates the child's face to encourage the child to notice facial expressions in a play-based game. A usability case study with 15 typically-developing children aged 4-6 at an English-language school in the Netherlands was performed to observe the feasibility of the setup and make design revisions before exposing the robot to autistic children.

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Do Sensory Preferences of Children with Autism Impact an Imitation Task with a Robot?

Cited by 21 publications

References 44 publications

10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

Social engagement of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in imitating a humanoid robot: a case study

Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions

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