Human-Robot Interactoin Design for Robot-Assisted Intervention for Children with Autism Based on E-S Theory

The paper presents a novel human-robot interaction (HRI) framework to assist intervention for children with autism, based on Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) theory. E-S theory explains the social difficulties in autism as the result of deficits or delays in empathizing, while explaining nonsocial beha...

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Published in2016 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (IHMSC) Vol. 2; pp. 320 - 324
Main Authors Chaochao Li, Qingxuan Jia, Yongli Feng
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2016
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Autism
autism therapy
Emotion recognition
Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) theory
Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
Human-robot interaction
Load modeling
Robot sensing systems
social robot
Systematics
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Summary:The paper presents a novel human-robot interaction (HRI) framework to assist intervention for children with autism, based on Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) theory. E-S theory explains the social difficulties in autism as the result of deficits or delays in empathizing, while explaining nonsocial behavior patterns as the effect of intact or even superior skills in systemizing. In this paper, the strength of systemizing is utilized to make up the deficiency and facilitate the development in empathizing via robot-assisted intervention, which has been identified as one of the most popular methods that are producing inspiring outcomes in the rehabilitation of children with autism. The design of HRI scenarios and tasks based on E-S theory makes the robot-assisted intervention more effective and efficient.
DOI:10.1109/IHMSC.2016.103