2018/05/29 by Andreia Costa, Costa, Andreia, Tonie Schweich +5
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Robotics (cs.RO) #cs.HC #cs.RO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.07805
Presented at Interaction Design and Children (IDC-CRI2018) Workshop (arXiv:submit/2277826)
arxiv created 2018/05/29 · arxiv updated 2018/06/21
In this exploratory study we assessed how attitudes of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) towards robots together with children's autism-related social impairments are linked to indicators of children's preference of an interaction with a robot over an interaction with a person. We found that children with ASD have overall positive attitudes towards robots and that they often prefer interacting with a robot than with a person. Several of children's attitudes were linked to children's longer gazes towards a robot compared to a person. Autism-related social impairments were linked to more repetitive and stereotyped behaviors and to a shorter gaze duration in the interaction with the robot compared to the person. These preliminary results contribute to better understand factors that might help determine sub-groups of children with ASD for whom robots could be particularly useful.