“…Kajopoulos et al, 2015); B. Setup using the robot Nao (redrawn from Chevalier, 2016) Following this line of reasoning, several authors focused on training or assessing the joint attention skills of children diagnosed with ASD with the use of interactive sessions with a robot (Anzalone et al, 2014(Anzalone et al, , 2018Bekele, Crittendon, Swanson, Sarkar, & Warren, 2014;Boccanfuso et al, 2017;Chevalier et al, 2016;David, Costescu, Matu, Szentagotai, & Dobrean, 2018;Duquette, Michaud, & Mercier, 2008;Kajopoulos et al, 2015;Michaud et al, 2007;Simut, Vanderfaeillie, Peca, Van de Perre, & Vanderborght, 2016;Taheri, Meghdari, Alemi, & Pouretemad, 2018;Warren et al, 2013;Zheng et al, 2013Zheng et al, , 2018, often through a spatial attention cueing paradigm: the child is prompted by the robot to look in a given direction where a visual target is displayed (see Figure 2). The robots can use increasing degrees of bids for joint attention,…”