Improving communication skills of children with ASDs through interaction with virtual characters

Abirached, Bretagne; Zhang, Yan; Aggarwal, J. K.; Tamersoy, Birgi; Fernandes, Tiago; Carlos, José

doi:10.1109/segah.2011.6165464

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“…The focus of games in this category is on training recognition of facial expressions and body gestures, e.g. cMotion [16] and LIFEisGAME [17], both of which aim to help children recognise contextualised facial expressions through manipulation of an interactive virtual character [18]. Commercial games, include FaceSay [19] or Society [20], which provide children with opportunities to practice key skills, e.g.…”

Section: Serious Games For Autismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building an Intelligent, Authorable Serious Game for Autistic Children and Their Carers

Porayska-Pomsta

Anderson²,

Bernardini

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper introduces the SHARE-IT project, which leverages serious games paradigm to motivate and engage children with autism diagnosis in interactive activities, based on the state-of-the-art autism intervention practices. The aim of SHARE-IT is to formulate, in partnership with schools, parents and industry, the requirements for a robust, intelligent and authorable environment for supporting children in exploring, practicing and acquiring social interaction skills. SHARE-IT focuses on two key challenges: (i) developing robust system architecture and implementation, able to support both continuing development of a serious game for children with autism and its real world use; and (ii) selecting appropriate technologies and techniques to allow for (a) multi-device and operating system deployment, (b) the development of an intelligent serious game for supporting social interaction while (c) allowing the flexibility for the environment to be authored by lay persons. SHARE-IT's architecture is presented and several considerations of importance to enabling the engineering of an intelligent and authorable serious game are discussed. Examples of technologies developed to date are given throughout and a discussion of future challenges offered.

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Section: Serious Games For Autismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building an Intelligent, Authorable Serious Game for Autistic Children and Their Carers

Porayska-Pomsta

Anderson²,

Bernardini

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Wang [48], on the other hand, presented promising results when combining verbal and non-verbal language during the interaction of avatars with people with ASD. Other authors have demonstrated the effectiveness of working with avatars in different therapeutic processes for people with ASD, functioning as tutors in the teaching of social and communication skills, as emotional regulators and in the recognition of facial expressions [20], [44], [49]- [54].…”

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Assessing Children’s Perceptions of Live Interactions With Avatars: Preparations for Use in ASD Therapy in a Multi-Ethnic Context

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Avatars have been found to be useful tools to overcome communication barriers in people affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and to help them understand and express emotions. However, it has been shown that the success of the interactions is highly dependent on the subject's identification with the avatar. In this study, we assess the variables that may influence that perception in children under 10, in the context of the largely multi-ethnic Ecuadorean society. The results reveal that, unlike previous studies showed for young adults, the ethnic traits displayed by the avatars are not a critical factor, as the the quality of the interactions was more influenced by the perception of the avatars' appearance, their similarity with the kids' peers and, above all, the ability of the human model who controls the avatar to use a pleasant voice, to succeed in making his/her questions and responses fully understood, and to master the non-verbal communication transmitted through gestures and voice. INDEX TERMS Avatars, Human-Computer Interaction, multi-ethnic societies.

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“…No campo da detecção e trato de emoções, além dos jogos que usam sensores específicos mencionados anteriormente, foram identificados dois jogos que fazem uso das imagens obtidas por webcams para identificar emoções. Abirached et al [22] apresentam um jogo que consiste em quatro fases: reconhecimento de expressões, construção de uma face com emoções, mímica e expressões em uma história. O processo de detecção facial é semiautomático, devendo antes efetuar marcações manuais de pontos chave das fotos do rosto do jogador.…”

Section: Jogos Digitais Desenvolvidos Para Plataforma Desktopunclassified

Jogos Digitais para Pessoas com Transtornos do Espectro do Autismo (TEA): Uma Revisão Sistemática

Fernandes

Nohama

2020

TEyET

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Individuos com transtornos do espectro do autismo (TEA) possuem desenvolvimento atipico nas areas cognitiva ou de aprendizagem, comunicacao e interacao social, deteccao e trato de emocoes, coordenacao motora e concentracao. O desenvolvimento de tecnologias assistivas e fundamental para melhorar a qualidade de vida destes individuos. Este estudo faz uma revisao sistematica da literatura com foco em jogos digitais usados como tecnologias assistivas para individuos com TEA. Fazendo uso da base digital IEEE Xplore, foram pesquisados estudos que continham o termo game em conjunto com termos relacionados ao TEA. A partir da busca foram encontradas 193 ocorrencias do conjunto de termos. Os artigos foram lidos e analisados, sendo selecionados os estudos que tratam de jogos digitais com foco em individuos com TEA. Foram excluidos da selecao jogos que fazem uso unicamente de hardwares especificos e que nao apresentam funcao de tecnología assistiva. Como resultado final deste estudo foram selecionados 62 artigos neste contexto, sendo que todos apresentam resultados positivos quanto ao uso dos jogos digitais na melhoria das capacidades das pessoas com TEA. Desta forma, e possivel verificar a consistencia de tal abordagem, encorajando a continuidade das pesquisas e do desenvolvimento de jogos digitais com foco em tecnología assistiva para pessoas com TEA.

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Improving communication skills of children with ASDs through interaction with virtual characters

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

Building an Intelligent, Authorable Serious Game for Autistic Children and Their Carers

Building an Intelligent, Authorable Serious Game for Autistic Children and Their Carers

Assessing Children’s Perceptions of Live Interactions With Avatars: Preparations for Use in ASD Therapy in a Multi-Ethnic Context

Jogos Digitais para Pessoas com Transtornos do Espectro do Autismo (TEA): Uma Revisão Sistemática

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