TY - GEN
T1 - An intervention for children with social anxiety and autism spectrum disorders using an android robot
AU - Kumazaki, Hirokazu
AU - Yoshikawa, Yuichiro
AU - Matsumoto, Yoshio
AU - Miyao, Masutomo
AU - Ishiguro, Hiroshi
AU - Muramatsu, Taro
AU - Mimura, Masaru
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15H01577). We sincerely thank the participants and all the families who participated in this study.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Some children with social anxiety and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by deficits in social communication consisting of a lack of speech in specific social situations in which there is an expectation of speaking, although these children do speak in other situations. Comorbid social anxiety and ASD is considered hard to treat. A variety of therapeutic and educational approaches have been developed, which have had educational benefits for some children with social anxiety and ASD. Thus, there is an urgent need for the development and application of novel and more efficacious treatment strategies. We introduced a “taking note system,” in which a subject operates an android robot and communicates with others through it. Post intervention, the participant showed a significant decrease in social anxiety. Based on our case report, an intervention using a “taking note system” is effective for decreasing stress. This finding suggests that this approach is promising and warrants further study.
AB - Some children with social anxiety and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by deficits in social communication consisting of a lack of speech in specific social situations in which there is an expectation of speaking, although these children do speak in other situations. Comorbid social anxiety and ASD is considered hard to treat. A variety of therapeutic and educational approaches have been developed, which have had educational benefits for some children with social anxiety and ASD. Thus, there is an urgent need for the development and application of novel and more efficacious treatment strategies. We introduced a “taking note system,” in which a subject operates an android robot and communicates with others through it. Post intervention, the participant showed a significant decrease in social anxiety. Based on our case report, an intervention using a “taking note system” is effective for decreasing stress. This finding suggests that this approach is promising and warrants further study.
KW - Animal-assisted therapy
KW - Autism spectrum Disorder
KW - PARO
KW - Robot therapy
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-50953-2_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-50953-2_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018423886
SN - 9783319509525
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 470
EP - 477
BT - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI 2015 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, AAA, HAT-MASH, TSDAA, ASD-HR, and SKL, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Otake, Mihoko
A2 - Satoh, Ken
A2 - Kurahashi, Setsuya
A2 - Ota, Yuiko
A2 - Bekki, Daisuke
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 7th JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2015
Y2 - 16 November 2015 through 18 November 2015
ER -