Comedic experience with two robots aided a child with autism spectrum disorder to realize the importance of nonverbal communication.

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Authors

• Hirokazu Kumazaki
  Department of Clinical Research on Social Recognition and Memory, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan.
• Taro Muramatsu
  Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• Yuichiro Yoshikawa
  Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan.
• Yoshio Matsumoto
  Service Robotics Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan.
• Hiroshi Ishiguro
• Tomiki Sumiyoshi
  Department of Preventive Intervention for Psychiatric Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan.
• Masaru Mimura
  Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• Mitsuru Kikuchi
  Department of Clinical Research on Social Recognition and Memory, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan.

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