@misc{cogprints4993, volume = {123}, editor = {Luc Berthouze and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Kaplan and Hideki Kozima and Hiroyuki Yano and J{\"u}rgen Konczak and Giorgio Metta and Jacqueline Nadel and Giulio Sandini and Georgi Stojanov and Christian Balkenius}, title = {How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?: Possible implications for educational environments}, author = {Emi Miyamoto and Mingyi Lee and Hiroyuki Fujii and Michio Okada}, publisher = {Lund University Cognitive Studies}, year = {2005}, pages = {145--146}, keywords = {autism therapy, social interaction, social agent, robot interaction}, url = {http://cogprints.org/4993/}, 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.} }