@inproceedings{23d9d2452b5945fa8ca5e7f7dede5734,
title = "Individuals with autism: Analysis of the first interaction with Nao robot based on their proprioceptive and kinematic profiles",
abstract = "Our research aims to develop a new personalized social interaction model between a humanoid robot and an individual suffering of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), so as to enhance his/her social and communication skills. In order to define individual{\textquoteright}s profile, we posit that the individual{\textquoteright}s reliance to proprioceptive and kinematic visual cues will affect the way an individual suffering of ASD interacts with a social agent. We describe a first experiment that defines each participant{\textquoteright}s perceptivocognitive and sensorimotor profile with respect to the integration of visual inputs, thanks to the Sensory Profile questionnaire and an experimental set-up. We succeeded to form 3 groups with significant different behavioural responses inside our subject pool formed by 7 adults and 6 children with ASD. In a second experiment, we presented the Nao robot to all of our participants. We video-analysed their behaviours and compared them to the profiles we defined. In view of our results, this first interaction confirmed our hypothesis: participants with a weak proprioceptive integration and strong visual dependency had more successful interaction than participants with an overreliance on proprioceptive input and hyporeactivity to visual cues.",
keywords = "Autism, Kinematics, Personalized interaction, Proprioception, Socially assistive robotics",
author = "Pauline Chevalier and Brice Isableu and Martin, \{Jean Claude\} and Adriana Tapus",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.; 24th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2015 ; Conference date: 27-05-2015 Through 29-05-2015",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-21290-6\_23",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319212890",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "225--233",
editor = "Theodor Borangiu",
booktitle = "Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD",
}