Applied virtual environments to support learning of social interaction skills in users with Asperger's Syndrome

Cobb, Sue; Beardon, Luke; Eastgate, Richard; Glover, Tony; Kerr, Steven; Neale, Helen; Parsons, Sarah; Benford, Steve; Hopkins, E; Mitchell, Peter; Reynard, Gail; Wilson, John R.

doi:10.1076/digc.13.1.11.3208

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“…Although controlled testing has yet to be conducted, pilot testing indicates that these interventions are feasible and well-received by participants [61][62][63]. Recently, there has also been an increased interest in the treatment of anxiety and depression in this population as well, due to its connection to social impairments among high-functioning individuals on the spectrum [64][65][66][67].…”

Section: Treatment and Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthood: Long-term outcomes and relevant issues for treatment and research

Ratto

Mesibov

2015

Sci. China Life Sci.

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The advances in research and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) over the past three decades have focused largely on early childhood and school-age years. Although ASD is a lifelong condition, there has been relatively little attention paid to ASD during the adolescent and adulthood periods. As the population of those with ASD continues to rise and age, the need to provide research and treatment for this group has become increasingly evident. This paper reviews the current literature available on symptoms, functioning, and treatment of adolescents and adults with ASD, as well as the unique issues that arise for individuals with ASD after childhood. Adulthood outcomes for ASD are generally poor, even for those with average to above average cognitive ability. Further research and additional clinical resources are needed for this rapidly increasing group.

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Section: Treatment and Interventionmentioning

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Autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthood: Long-term outcomes and relevant issues for treatment and research

Ratto

Mesibov

2015

Sci. China Life Sci.

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“…VR technologies have also been explored as potential skills training instruments for individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). A series of studies have discussed the viability and utility of VR in developing the social skills of people diagnosed with ASD (Cobb et al, 2002;Parsons & Mitchell, 2003;Parsons et al, 2004;Parsons et al, 2006). Virtual environments are considered to be fit for this task, as they can depict complex social contexts, but they are at the same time controllable and predictable, eliminating the anxiety that social interactions often elicit in people with ASD (Parsons et al, 2006).…”

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Virtual Reality in Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

Szentágotai¹,

Opriş²,

David³

2010

Virtual Reality

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“…This means that, while players are taught to recognise emotions, they do not learn appropriate responses and interactions. There have also been interactive virtual worlds systems such as the AS Interactive system by the University of Nottingham [7], but this does not provide rich verbal and non-verbal behaviour that can help learn subtle social cues. KASPAR [14], a child-sized humanoid robot, with minimum facial expressions and a few body movements, has been developed for autistic children to encourage imitation and turn-taking during interaction.…”

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Affect sensing in an affective interactive e-theatre for autistic children

Zhang

2010

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering(NLPKE-2010)

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Abstract:In this paper we describe an interactive emotional social virtual framework for autistic young people age 11 -14 to learn verbal and non-verbal emotional expression in role-play situations. In order to provide an interactive learning environment with some degree of automatic metaphorical understanding from open-ended text input, new developments on affect detection for the processing of several metaphorical languages have been presented. The emotional gesture and facial animation have been created for users' avatars and activated by affective states detected from users' text input. Emotion appraisal and affect detection functions have been embodied in an intelligent conversational agent, who interacts with human users for drama improvisation. We have also conducted user testing with 24 autistic children to evaluate the overall framework. The work has the potential to improve autistic young people's ability in language learning and their social connection with other people. It contributes to the conference themes on natural language processing, interactive affective social interfaces and user studies of intelligent interfaces.

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Applied virtual environments to support learning of social interaction skills in users with Asperger's Syndrome

Cited by 79 publications

References 8 publications

Autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthood: Long-term outcomes and relevant issues for treatment and research

Autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthood: Long-term outcomes and relevant issues for treatment and research

Virtual Reality in Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

Affect sensing in an affective interactive e-theatre for autistic children

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