Attentional Behavior of Children With ASD in Response to Robotic Agents
Attentional Behavior of Children With ASD in Response to Robotic Agents
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DOI：
10.1109/access.2021.3056211
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发表时间：
2021-01-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Ayaz, Yasar
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作者：
Mehmood, Faisal;Mahzoon, Hamed;Ayaz, Yasar
自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)影响儿童的各种社交技能。受自闭症影响的最重要的社交技能之一是注意力的能力；自闭症在儿童对外部刺激的注意行为中引入了不必要的时间延迟。本研究的重点是从机器人代理中识别不同社会刺激的影响，以评估自闭症儿童的注意行为。注意力转移潜伏期和对刺激的注意次数被定义为自闭症儿童注意行为的指标。9名患有自闭症的儿童(7名男性和2名女性，平均年龄为7.57+/-2.57岁)几乎没有自闭症症状，参与了这项研究。两个机器人代理向参与者提供视觉、语音和运动社交刺激。社会刺激对注意转移潜伏期(chi(2)(2)=9.55，p=0.008)和注意次数(chi(2)(2)=9.56，p=0.008)有显著影响。在注意力转移的潜伏期和注意次数方面，言语刺激比视觉和运动刺激更快地捕捉到儿童的注意力。此外，使用皮尔逊相关分析发现，视觉、语音和运动刺激中的某些刺激对转移注意的潜伏期和注意力的数量存在显著的正相关。这项研究对机器人刺激对自闭症儿童注意行为的影响的文献做出了贡献。
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects a variety of social skills in children. One of the most important social skills that are affected by ASD is the ability to pay attention; ASD introduces unnecessary temporal delays in the attentional behavior of children toward external stimuli. This research focuses on identifying the effect of different social stimuli from robotic agents to assess the attentional behavior of children with ASD. Latencies in shifting attention and the number of attentions paid to a stimulus are defined as indexes of attentional behaviors for children with ASD. Nine children with ASD (seven males and two females, mean: 7.57 +/- 2.57 years) that had minimal to no symptoms of autism participated in this study. Two robotic agents presented visual, speech, and motion social stimuli to the participants. Regarding social stimuli, a significant effect on the latency in shifting attention (chi(2) (2) = 9.55, p = 0.008) and the number of attentions paid (chi(2) (2) = 9.56, p = 0.008) was observed in children with ASD. The speech stimulus captured the children's attention faster than the visual and motion stimuli in terms of latency in shifting attention and the number of attentions paid. Moreover, significant positive correlations were found for some pairs of stimuli among visual, speech, and motion stimuli for latencies in shifting attention, as well as the number of attentions paid using Pearson's correlation analysis. This study contributes to the literature in terms of the impact of robotic stimuli on the attentional behavior of children with ASD.