Interaction With Social Robots: Improving Gaze Toward Face but Not Necessarily Joint Attention in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

被引:19
作者
Cao, Wei [1 ]
Song, Wenxu [1 ]
Li, Xinge [2 ]
Zheng, Sixiao [3 ]
Zhang, Ge [4 ]
Wu, Yanting [2 ]
He, Sailing [1 ]
Zhu, Huilin [5 ]
Chen, Jiajia [1 ,6 ]
机构
[1] South China Normal Univ, Ctr Opt & Electromagnet Res, South China Acad Adv Optoelect, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[2] South China Normal Univ, Sch Psychol, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[3] Fudan Univ, Acad Engn & Technol, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[4] Caihongqiao Children Rehabil & Serv Ctr Panyu Dis, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[5] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Child Dev & Behav Ctr, Affiliated Hosp 3, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[6] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Stockholm, Sweden
来源
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY | 2019年 / 10卷
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
autism spectrum disorder; social robot; joint attention; longest common subsequence; eye tracking; YOUNG-CHILDREN; PREVALENCE;
D O I
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01503
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
It is widely recognized that robot-based interventions for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) hold promise, but the question remains as to whether social humanoid robots could facilitate joint attention performance in children with ASD. In this study, responsive joint attention was measured under two conditions in which different agents, a human and a robot, initiated joint attention via video. The participants were 15 children with ASD (mean age: 4.96 +/- 1.10 years) and 15 typically developing (TD) children (mean age: 4.53 +/- 0.90 years). In addition to analyses of fixation time and gaze transitions, a longest common subsequence approach (LCS) was employed to compare participants' eye movements to a predefined logical reference sequence. The fixation of TD toward agent's face was earlier and longer than children with ASD. Moreover, TD showed a greater number of gaze transitions between agent's face and target, and higher LCS scores than children with ASD. Both groups showed more interests in the robot's face, but the robot induced a lower proportion of fixation time on the target. Meanwhile participants showed similar gaze transitions and LCS results in both conditions, suggesting that they could follow the logic of the joint attention task induced by the robot as well as human. We have discussed the implications for the effects and applications of social humanoid robots in joint attention interventions.
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