Do Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Show Selective Trust in Social Robots?

Autor: Chen Z; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Zheng J; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Gao Y; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Fang J; Qingdao Autism Research Institute, Qingdao, China., Wang Y; Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China. yingwang@tsinghua.edu.cn., Chen H; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China. chenhui@zju.edu.cn., Wang T; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou, 310058, China. tfwang@zju.edu.cn.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of autism and developmental disorders [J Autism Dev Disord] 2024 Jul 17. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 17.
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06474-4
Abstrakt: Purpose: Previous researches suggest that social robots can facilitate the learning of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by enhancing their interests, engagement, and attention. However, there is limited understanding regarding whether children with ASD can learn directly from the testimony of social robots and whether they can remain vigilant based on the perceived accuracy of these robots. Therefore, the present study was conducted to examine whether children with ASD demonstrated selective trust towards social robots.
Methods: Twenty-nine children with ASD between ages of 4-7 years, and 38 typically-developing (TD) age and IQ-matched peers participated in classic selective trust tasks. During the tasks, they learned the names of novel objects from either a pair of social robots or a pair of human informants, where one informant had previously been established as accurate and the other inaccurate.
Results: Children with ASD trusted information from an accurate social robot over an inaccurate one, similar to their performance with human informants. However, compared to TD children, children with ASD exhibited lower levels of selective trust regardless of the type of informants they learned from.
Conclusions: Our study suggests that children with ASD can selectively trust and acquire knowledge from social robots, shedding light on the potential use of social robots in supporting individuals with ASD.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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