Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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设计和评估交互式代理作为自闭症谱系障碍儿童的社交技能导师
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2011
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D. Powers
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Marissa Milne;Martin H. Luerssen;T. Lewis;Richard Leibbrandt;D. Powers
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）使受影响的人很难进行沟通和社会交往。现有的研究已经报告了积极的结果，使用人类控制的虚拟代理人和语言技能，使用自主代理人的自闭症儿童的社会技能。在这里，我们联合收割机这些方法和调查的潜力，自主代理人的社会技能导师。一个系统的视听合成代理开发实现这一目的，并利用两个辅导模块，我们专门设计的教学会话技能和如何处理欺凌。评估后，孩子们的想法，他们的经验与虚拟导师进行了调查，通过使用的调查。积极的反馈和两个模块的测试成绩的适度但显着的改善表明，这种教学社交技能的策略有很大的潜力，在这一领域的进一步研究和发展将是非常值得的。
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) makes communication and social interaction very difficult for those affected. Existing studies have reported positive results for teaching social skills to children with ASD using human-controlled virtual agents and language skills using autonomous agents. Here we combine these approaches and investigate the potential of autonomous agents as social skills tutors. A system for audio-visually synthesising an agent is developed towards this purpose and utilised together with two tutoring modules that we specifically designed for teaching conversation skills and how to deal with bullying. Following evaluation, children’s thoughts about their experience with the virtual tutor were investigated through use of a survey. The positive feedback and the modest but significant improvements in test scores for both modules suggest that this strategy for teaching social skills has much potential and that further research and development in this area would be eminently worthwhile.