Development of a virtual agent based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders
| Autor: | Martin H. Luerssen, David M. W. Powers, Marissa Milne, Richard Leibbrandt, Trent W. Lewis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Facial expression
Multimedia Computer science Multi-agent system media_common.quotation_subject education Autonomous agent Applied psychology computer.software_genre medicine.disease Social skills Autism spectrum disorder medicine Autism Conversation TUTOR computer computer.programming_language media_common |
| Zdroj: | IJCNN |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ijcnn.2010.5596584 |
| Popis: | Virtual agents have been investigated as an educational tool for use with children on the autistic spectrum with positive results being gained for language skills with the use of autonomous agents and social skills with human-controlled agents. This project combines these ideas to investigate the utility of autonomous agents for teaching social skills. The virtual agent used in this project, known as the Thinking Head, has an ability to realistically portray facial expressions that lends it to this task. Two prototype modules were developed for this agent platform, one teaching basic conversation skills and the other dealing with bullying. In a pre-test-post-test evaluation, a group of children with autism who were exposed to the training modules obtained significantly higher post-test scores on their knowledge of these two topics. In addition, responses to a post-training survey indicated that participants found the virtual tutor enjoyable and useful. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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