Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots

Hirokazu Kumazaki; Taro Muramatsu; Yuichiro Yoshikawa; Yuko Yoshimura; Takashi Ikeda; Chiaki Hasegawa; Daisuke N. Saito; Jiro Shimaya; Hiroshi Ishiguro; Masaru Mimura; Mitsuru Kikuchi

doi:10.1007/s10803-018-3848-7

Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots

Hirokazu Kumazaki, Taro Muramatsu, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Yuko Yoshimura, Takashi Ikeda, Chiaki Hasegawa, Daisuke N. Saito, Jiro Shimaya, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masaru Mimura, Mitsuru Kikuchi

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Abstract

We investigated the feasibility of our novel evaluation system for use with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We prepared the experimental setting with two humanoid robots in reference to the birthday party scene in the Autism Diagnostic Observational Schedule (ADOS). We assessed the relationship between social communication ability measured in the ADOS condition (i.e., with a human clinician) and in a robotic condition for children with ASD. There were significant correlations between the social communication scores in the gold-standard ADOS condition and the robotic condition for children with ASD. The current work provides support for a unique application of a robotic system (i.e., two robot-mediated interaction) to evaluate the severity of autistic traits for children with ASD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1709-1716
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	49
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3848-7
Publication status	Published - 2019 Apr 1

Keywords

ADOS
Autism spectrum disorders
Robot
Severity
Social communication
Typical development

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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