ECHOES: An intelligent serious game for fostering social communication in children with autism
ECHOES: An intelligent serious game for fostering social communication in children with autism
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ins.2013.10.027
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发表时间：
2014-04-20
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Smith, Tim J.
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作者：
Bernardini, Sara;Porayska-Pomsta, Kaska;Smith, Tim J.
本文介绍了Eches，这是一款严肃的游戏，旨在帮助患有自闭症谱系疾病的儿童练习社交技能。我们的重点是设计和实现在二维感官花园中进行的交互式学习活动，以及作为自闭症儿童可信的社会伙伴的自主虚拟代理。活动和代理都是基于最佳自闭症实践和用户输入的原则。给出了建立一个支持在这一背景下学习的自主社会能力代理的规范指南。我们在对ECHES平台进行广泛评估的基础上，给出了与该代理的有效性有关的实验结果，这些结果显示了一些儿童令人鼓舞的趋势。(C)2013 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
This paper presents ECHOES, a serious game built to help young children with autism spectrum conditions practice social communication skills. We focus on the design and implementation of the interactive learning activities, which take place in a two-dimensional sensory garden, and the autonomous virtual agent, which acts as a credible social partner to children with autism. Both the activities and the agent are based on principles of best autism practice and input from users. Specification guidelines are given for building an autonomous socially competent agent that supports learning in this context. We present experimental results pertaining to the effectiveness of the agent based on an extensive evaluation of the ECHOES platform, which show encouraging tendencies for a number of children. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.