CAN THE SOCIAL ROBOT PROBO HELP CHILDREN WITH AUTISM TO IDENTIFY SITUATION-BASED EMOTIONS? A SERIES OF SINGLE CASE EXPERIMENTS
2013; World Scientific; Volume: 10; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1142/s0219843613500254
ISSN1793-6942
AutoresCristina Pop, Ramona Simut, Sebastian Pintea, Jelle Saldien, Alina S. Rusu, Daniel David, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght,
Tópico(s)Child and Animal Learning Development
ResumoChildren with autism spectrum disorders have difficulties in identifying situation-based emotions, which is a fundamental ability for mind reading. Social robots received increased attention as assisting tools for improving the social and emotional skills of children with autism. This study investigates whether the social robot Probo can help children with autism spectrum disorders to enhance their performance in identifying situation-based emotions. Three participants (age between 5 and 6) diagnozed with autism spectrum disorders were included in a single case AB experimental design, with intersubjects replications. The results show that children's performance improved with moderate to large effect sizes in identifying both sadness and happiness. Based on these results, we intend to perform more extensive investigations regarding the effectiveness of robot assisted therapy in improving social-emotional abilities for children with autism spectrum disorders.
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