25-08-2015 | Original Paper
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Make a Fruit Salad with Probo, the Social Robot: An Interaction Study
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 1/2016
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Social robots are thought to be motivating tools in play tasks with children with autism spectrum disorders.
Thirty children with autism were included using a repeated measurements design. It was investigated if the children’s interaction with a human differed from the interaction with a social robot during a play task. Also, it was examined if the two conditions differed in their ability to elicit interaction with a human accompanying the child during the task. Interaction of the children with both partners did not differ apart from the eye-contact. Participants had more eye-contact with the social robot compared to the eye-contact with the human. The conditions did not differ regarding the interaction elicited with the human accompanying the child.