Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots.

Journal: Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Published Date: Apr 1, 2019

Abstract

We investigated the feasibility of our novel evaluation system for use with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We prepared the experimental setting with two humanoid robots in reference to the birthday party scene in the Autism Diagnostic Observational Schedule (ADOS). We assessed the relationship between social communication ability measured in the ADOS condition (i.e., with a human clinician) and in a robotic condition for children with ASD. There were significant correlations between the social communication scores in the gold-standard ADOS condition and the robotic condition for children with ASD. The current work provides support for a unique application of a robotic system (i.e., two robot-mediated interaction) to evaluate the severity of autistic traits for children with ASD.

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.
  • Yuko Yoshimura
    Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, 13-1, Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8640, Japan.
  • Takashi Ikeda
    2Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kumamoto Rosai Hospital, Yatsushiro, Japan.
  • Chiaki Hasegawa
    Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, 13-1, Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8640, Japan.
  • Daisuke N Saito
    Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, 13-1, Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8640, Japan.
  • Jiro Shimaya
    Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneryamachou, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
  • Hiroshi Ishiguro
  • 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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