[en] 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.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Pinto Costa, Andreia ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Schweich, Tonie ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE)
Charpiot, Louise ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Steffgen, Georges ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Attitudes of Children with Autism towards Robots: An Exploratory Study
Publication date :
June 2018
Event name :
Interaction Design and Children Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction (IDC-CRI2018)
Event date :
19-06-2018
Main work title :
ACM SIGCHI IDC2018 Workshop on Children's Robotics and Child-Robot Interaction
