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This paper presents a literature review of roles played by information and innovative technologies for helping children suffering from Autism Spectrum Disease (ASD). ASD is a pervasive developmental disorder having issues 1with social communication, interests, coordination, attention, and health. People with autism are very sensitive and cannot afford a minor change in their surrounding environment...
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is considered as one of the developmental disorders caused by dysfunctions of the brain. It can be difficult for patient with ASD to communicate using words and gestures, and process the multiple stimuli. It is important to detect a person with ASD while young because there is a possibility that the symptoms can be improved significantly by appropriate treatment and...
Children with autism can present a wide spectrum of serious limitations in various fundamental aspects of development: the imaginative ability, behavior, communication and reciprocal social interaction. The use of videogames by children and young people has become very common, which has sparked the interest of exploring the full benefits that can be achieved with these tools in the educational and...
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) exhibit a range of developmental disabilities, with mild to severe effects in social interaction and communication. Children with PDD-NOS, Autism and co-existing conditions are facing enormous challenges in their lives, dealing with their difficulties in sensory perception, repetitive behaviors and interests. These challenges result in them being less...
Lack of spontaneous pretend play is an early diagnostic indicator of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) along with impaired communication and social interaction. In a previous ISMAR poster [2] we proposed an Augmented Reality (AR) system to encourage pretend play, based on an analogy between imaginative interpretation of physical objects (pretense) and the superimposition of virtual content on the physical...
Daily living skills are difficult for autistic children to learn because they have low motivation in learning new things. Some research has developed virtual environment to assist parents and teachers teaching autistic children daily living skills, educators still need to spend a lot of time in preparing personalized and more realistic tasks for children to practice. This research designs an activity...
Autism is a complex neuro-developmental disorder characterized by qualitative alterations in social interactions and interpersonal communication and by repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. The therapy is based on a free play between an autistic child, a mobile robot and a therapist. The robot is used as a mediator between the child and the therapist to improve human to human interactions. The aim...
Recent research suggests that children with autism exhibit certain positive social behaviors while interacting with robots that are not observed while interacting with their peers, caregivers, and therapists. This paper explores trends in robot-assisted autism therapy, as well as some of the specific therapies that have been shown to elicit desirable social interactions when working with children...
Recent increase in the number of Autism cases has triggered an alarm in our society. Lack of effective diagnostics, interventions and associated cost makes early intervention and long term treatment difficult. In this paper, we describe novel methods to assist management by automatically detecting stereotypical behavioral patterns using accelerometer data. We use the Iterative Subspace Identification...
In this study, we target to automatically detect behavioral patterns of patients with autism. Many stereotypical behavioral patterns may hinder their learning ability as a child and patterns such as self-injurious behaviors (SIB) can lead to critical damages or wounds as they tend to repeatedly harm one single location. Our custom designed accelerometer based wearable sensor can be placed at various...
This article is a methodological paper that describes the therapeutic and educational objectives that were identified during the design process of a robot aimed at robot assisted play. The work described in this paper is part of the IROMEC project (Interactive Robotic Social Mediators as Companions) that recognizes the important role of play in child development and targets children who are prevented...
Multi-agent system of autonomous interactive blocks that can display its active state through color and light intensity has been developed. Depending on the individual rules, these autonomous blocks could express emergent behaviors which are a basis for various educational games. The multi-agent system is used for developing games for behavioral training of autistic children. This paper features the...
Recent studies in education for children with autism demonstrated that computer assisted learning can increase children's narrative understanding. However, software interfaces which include autonomous intelligent agents have yet to be explored in this context. In this paper we investigate how a narrative storytelling environment which is populated with virtual characters may help children with autism...
Autism is a wide spectrum developmental disorder. Its prevalence has increased enormously. Each autistic child has different needs and requires individual therapy. Information technology can help these children and their families by augmenting therapy and providing communication tools. We are developing a digital library that provides such a communication tool on a Pocket PC. The tool will be integrated...
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