TY - GEN
T1 - Developing Interaction Scenarios with a Humanoid Robot to Encourage Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism
T2 - 9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2017
AU - Robins, Ben
AU - Dautenhahn, Kerstin
AU - Wood, Luke
AU - Zaraki, Abolfazl
PY - 2017/10/24
Y1 - 2017/10/24
N2 - The study described in this article is part of our contribution to the Horizon 2020 Babyrobot project, where we have created different play scenarios for children with autism to playfully explore elements that are important in developing Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) skills. Individuals with autism often have difficulty with Theory of Mind (TOM) and the understanding that other individuals have their own thoughts, beliefs, plans and perspectives. Visual Perspective Taking is the ability to view the world from another individual’s perspective, e.g. understanding that other individuals have a different line of sight to oneself, and also understanding that two or more people viewing the same object from different points in space might see different things. It is believed that TOM and VPT may share common cognitive processes. Our study aims to help children with autism develop their VPT skills using the Kaspar robot. Using a robot to teach children about VPT has a distinct advantage in the fact that what the robot can see can be shown directly to the children using the cameras in the robot’s eyes and a screen to show the robot’s perspective. This article presents the preliminary test of these concepts during interaction sessions with children. It also presents the testing and further development of the play scenarios specifically in aspects related to VPT.
AB - The study described in this article is part of our contribution to the Horizon 2020 Babyrobot project, where we have created different play scenarios for children with autism to playfully explore elements that are important in developing Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) skills. Individuals with autism often have difficulty with Theory of Mind (TOM) and the understanding that other individuals have their own thoughts, beliefs, plans and perspectives. Visual Perspective Taking is the ability to view the world from another individual’s perspective, e.g. understanding that other individuals have a different line of sight to oneself, and also understanding that two or more people viewing the same object from different points in space might see different things. It is believed that TOM and VPT may share common cognitive processes. Our study aims to help children with autism develop their VPT skills using the Kaspar robot. Using a robot to teach children about VPT has a distinct advantage in the fact that what the robot can see can be shown directly to the children using the cameras in the robot’s eyes and a screen to show the robot’s perspective. This article presents the preliminary test of these concepts during interaction sessions with children. It also presents the testing and further development of the play scenarios specifically in aspects related to VPT.
KW - Autism
KW - Robot assisted therapy
KW - Visual Perspective Taking (VPT)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85035813599&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85035813599
SN - 9783319700212
VL - 10652 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 147
EP - 155
BT - Social Robotics
PB - Springer Nature Link
Y2 - 22 November 2017 through 24 November 2017
ER -