Impact of robot-mediated interaction system on joint attention skills for children with autism.
Impact of robot-mediated interaction system on joint attention skills for children with autism.
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机器人介导的交互系统对自闭症儿童联合注意力技能的影响。
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10.1109/icorr.2013.6650408
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2013
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Sarkar,Nilanjan
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Zheng,Zhi;Zhang,Lian;Bekele,Esubalew;Swanson,Amy;Crittendon,JulieA;Warren,Zachary;Sarkar,Nilanjan
疾病控制和预防中心估计自闭症谱系障碍儿童的患病率为1/88，自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的识别和有效治疗通常被描述为公共卫生紧急情况。迫切需要更有效的治疗方法，其实际应用将对ASD幼儿的神经发育轨迹产生更实质性的影响。机器人技术似乎特别有希望应用于ASD干预。将机器人技术应用于ASD干预的初步结果一直表明，它具有独特的潜力，可以引起ASD幼儿的兴趣和注意。因此，能够智能地利用这种潜力的技术，沿着检测和有意义地响应幼儿的注意力和行为的能力，可能代表具有影响ASD早期症状的实质性前景的干预平台。我们目前的工作描述了一种新的自适应机器人介导的交互技术的开发和应用，以促进ASD儿童的早期联合注意力技能。该系统是由一个人形机器人赋予一个及时的决策层次，以改变行为与加强刺激的干预环境中，以促进联合注意力技能。随着时间的推移，这个系统的实施结果，包括注意力偏差和性能增强的具体分析，与6名自闭症儿童。
With Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prevalence estimates for children with autism spectrum disorder 1 in 88, identification and effective treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often characterized as a public health emergency. There is an urgent need for more efficacious treatments whose realistic application will yield more substantial impact on the neurodevelopmental trajectories of young children with ASD. Robotic technology appears particularly promising for potential application to ASD intervention. Initial results applying robotic technology to ASD intervention have consistently demonstrated a unique potential to elicit interest and attention in young children with ASD. As such, technologies capable of intelligently harnessing this potential, along with capabilities for detecting and meaningfully responding to young children's attention and behavior, may represent intervention platforms with substantial promise for impacting early symptoms of ASD. Our current work describes development and application of a novel adaptive robot-mediated interaction technology for facilitating early joint attention skills for children with ASD. The system is composed of a humanoid robot endowed with a prompt decision hierarchy to alter behavior in concert with reinforcing stimuli within an intervention environment to promote joint attention skills. Results of implementation of this system over time, including specific analyses of attentional bias and performance enhancement, with 6 young children with ASD are presented.