@article{1e42e6071e8241749e53c41a872be7fb,
title = "Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots",
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.",
keywords = "ADOS, Autism spectrum disorders, Robot, Severity, Social communication, Typical development",
author = "Hirokazu Kumazaki and Taro Muramatsu and Yuichiro Yoshikawa and Yuko Yoshimura and Takashi Ikeda and Chiaki Hasegawa and Saito, {Daisuke N.} and Jiro Shimaya and Hiroshi Ishiguro and Masaru Mimura and Mitsuru Kikuchi",
note = "Funding Information: Funding Funding was provided by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant No. 18H02746), ERATO ISHIGURO Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction Project and the Center of Innovation Program from the Japan Science and Technology Agency, JST, Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s10803-018-3848-7",
language = "English",
volume = "49",
pages = "1709--1716",
journal = "Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders",
issn = "0162-3257",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "4",
}