AIMC Topic: Social Skills

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Job interview training targeting nonverbal communication using an android robot for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

Autism : the international journal of research and practice
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...

Do a robot's social skills and its objection discourage interactants from switching the robot off?

PloS one
Building on the notion that people respond to media as if they were real, switching off a robot which exhibits lifelike behavior implies an interesting situation. In an experimental lab study with a 2x2 between-subjects-design (N = 85), people were g...

Intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning for human-robot interaction in the real-world.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
For a natural social human-robot interaction, it is essential for a robot to learn the human-like social skills. However, learning such skills is notoriously hard due to the limited availability of direct instructions from people to teach a robot. In...

Social skills training for children with autism spectrum disorder using a robotic behavioral intervention system.

Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
We designed a robot system that assisted in behavioral intervention programs of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The eight-session intervention program was based on the discrete trial teaching protocol and focused on two basic social ski...

Machine learning and deep learning systems for automated measurement of "advanced" theory of mind: Reliability and validity in children and adolescents.

Psychological assessment
Understanding individual differences in theory of mind (ToM; the ability to attribute mental states to others) in middle childhood and adolescence hinges on the availability of robust and scalable measures. Open-ended response tasks yield valid indic...

A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intelligent Robotic Response to Joint Attention Intervention System.

Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Although there has been growing interest in utilizing robots for intervention in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there have been very few controlled trials to assess the actual impacts of such systems on social communication vulnerabilities. This stu...

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

Journal of autism and developmental disorders
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...

ICT and autism care: state of the art.

Current opinion in psychiatry
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Over the past 10 years, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has increased in regard to the treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). ICT support mechanisms (e.g. computers, laptops, ro...