2023/12/20 by Yi Honghu, Ting Liu, Honghu, Yi +3 · 1 citation
Neuroscience · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.05403
openalex publication_date 2023/12/20 · openalex created_date 2024/01/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been applied in various domains, including early childhood education (ECE). Integration of AI educational technology is a recent significant trend in ECE. Currently, there are more and more studies of AI in ECE. To date, there is a lack of survey articles that discuss the studies of AI in ECE. In this paper, we provide an up-to-date and in-depth overview of the key AI technologies in ECE that provides a historical perspective, summarizes the representative works, outlines open questions, discusses the trends and challenges through a detailed bibliometric analysis, and provides insightful recommendations for future research. We mainly discuss the studies that apply AI-based robots and AI technologies to ECE, including improving the social interaction of children with an autism spectrum disorder. This paper significantly contributes to provide an up-to-date and in-depth survey that is suitable as introductory material for beginners to AI in ECE, as well as supplementary material for advanced users.