Brief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Hirokazu Kumazaki; Zachary Warren; Amy Swanson; Yuichiro Yoshikawa; Yoshio Matsumoto; Yuko Yoshimura; Jiro Shimaya; Hiroshi Ishiguro; Nilanjan Sarkar; Joshua Wade; Masaru Mimura; Yoshio Minabe; Mitsuru Kikuchi

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Brief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Hirokazu Kumazaki, Zachary Warren, Amy Swanson, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Yoshio Matsumoto, Yuko Yoshimura, Jiro Shimaya, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Nilanjan Sarkar, Joshua Wade, Masaru Mimura, Yoshio Minabe, Mitsuru Kikuchi

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Abstract

Technological agents could be effective tools to be used in interventions for enhancing social orienting for some young children with ASD. We examined response to social bids in preschool children with ASD and typical development (TD) at a very early age (i.e., around 3 years) using social prompts presented by technological agents of various forms and human comparisons. Children with ASD demonstrated less response overall to social bids compared to TD controls, across agents or human. They responded more often to a simple humanoid robot and the simple avatar compared to the human. These results support the potential utilization of specific robotic and technological agents for harnessing and potentially increasing motivation to socially-relevant behaviors in some young children with ASD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1700-1708
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	49
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3841-1
Publication status	Published - 2019 Apr 1

Keywords

Android robot
Autism spectrum disorders
Digital avatar
Robot
Technological agents

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Kumazaki, H., Warren, Z., Swanson, A., Yoshikawa, Y., Matsumoto, Y., Yoshimura, Y., Shimaya, J., Ishiguro, H., Sarkar, N., Wade, J., Mimura, M., Minabe, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (2019). Brief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(4), 1700-1708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3841-1

Kumazaki, H, Warren, Z, Swanson, A, Yoshikawa, Y, Matsumoto, Y, Yoshimura, Y, Shimaya, J, Ishiguro, H, Sarkar, N, Wade, J, Mimura, M, Minabe, Y & Kikuchi, M 2019, 'Brief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1700-1708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3841-1

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