Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience difficulties in both verbal and nonverbal communication. Collaborative work allows them to use and develop their nonverbal communication abilities. Therefore, we developed a collaborative wor...
A growing minority of those with disabilities are people of color (POC), with, for example, autism diagnosis rates now higher for children of color than for white children in the USA. This trend underscores the need for assistive technologies, especi...
BACKGROUND: Social robots are becoming increasingly important as companions in our daily lives. Consequently, humans expect to interact with them using the same mental models applied to human-human interactions, including the use of cospeech gestures...
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Jan 5, 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: One possible approach to counter singularization and loneliness of older adults is the development and implementation of socially interactive robots. Little is known about the expectations and experiences of older adults wit...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Mar 6, 2023
In face-to-face interactions, parties rapidly react and adapt to each other's words, movements and expressions. Any science of face-to-face interaction must develop approaches to hypothesize and rigorously test mechanisms that explain such interdepen...
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Mar 24, 2021
Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans' responses to eye contact established by a humanoid robot. Here, we aimed at examining humans' osci...
Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Aug 1, 2019
Job interviews are significant barriers for individuals with autism spectrum disorder because these individuals lack good nonverbal communication skills. We developed a job interview training program using an android robot. The job interview training...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Aug 1, 2018
While it has been argued that children with autism spectrum disorders are responsive to robot-like toys, very little research has examined the impact of robot-based intervention on gesture use. These children have delayed gestural development. We use...
Nonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences
Apr 1, 2016
Synchronization has a long history in physics where it refers to the phase matching of two identical oscillators. This notion has been extensively studied in physics as well as in biology, where it has been applied to such widely varying phenomena as...