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

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 p...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2019-04, Vol.49 (4), p.1700-1708
Main Authors: Kumazaki, Hirokazu, Warren, Zachary, Swanson, Amy, Yoshikawa, Yuichiro, Matsumoto, Yoshio, Yoshimura, Yuko, Shimaya, Jiro, Ishiguro, Hiroshi, Sarkar, Nilanjan, Wade, Joshua, Mimura, Masaru, Minabe, Yoshio, Kikuchi, Mitsuru
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agents
Assistive Technology
Attention
Attention - physiology
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder - psychology
Autism Spectrum Disorder - therapy
Autistic children
Brief Report
Child
Child and School Psychology
Child development
Child, Preschool
Children
Cues
Employment interviews
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal relations in children
Intervention
Male
Motivation
Motivation - physiology
Neurosciences
Orientation - physiology
Pediatrics
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Pilot Projects
Preschool Children
Psychology
Public Health
Research Report
Robotics
Robotics - instrumentation
Robotics - methods
Robots
Skills
Social aspects
Social Behavior
Technology
Technology application
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy - instrumentation
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy - methods
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-018-3841-1