creators_name: Miyamoto, Emi creators_name: Lee, Mingyi creators_name: Fujii, Hiroyuki creators_name: Okada, Michio editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kaplan, Frédéric editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Yano, Hiroyuki editors_name: Konczak, Jürgen editors_name: Metta, Giorgio editors_name: Nadel, Jacqueline editors_name: Sandini, Giulio editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confposter datestamp: 2006-07-23 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:31 metadata_visibility: show title: How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?: Possible implications for educational environments ispublished: pub subjects: dev-psy subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: autism therapy, social interaction, social agent, robot interaction abstract: Children with autism have difficulties in social interaction with other people and much attention in recent years has been directed to robots as therapy tools. We studied the social interaction between children with autism and robots longitudinally to observe developmental changes in their performance. We observed children at a special school for six months and analyzed their performance with robots. The results showed that two children adapted to the experimental situations and developed interaction with the robots. This suggests that they changed their interaction with the robots from an object-like one into an agentlike one. date: 2005 date_type: published volume: 123 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 145-146 refereed: TRUE citation: Miyamoto, Emi and Lee, Mingyi and Fujii, Hiroyuki and Okada, Michio (2005) How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?: Possible implications for educational environments. [Conference Poster] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4993/1/miyamoto.pdf