title: How can robots facilitate social interaction of children with autism?: Possible implications for educational environments creator: Miyamoto, Emi creator: Lee, Mingyi creator: Fujii, Hiroyuki creator: Okada, Michio subject: Developmental Psychology subject: Robotics description: 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. publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies contributor: Berthouze, Luc contributor: Kaplan, Frédéric contributor: Kozima, Hideki contributor: Yano, Hiroyuki contributor: Konczak, Jürgen contributor: Metta, Giorgio contributor: Nadel, Jacqueline contributor: Sandini, Giulio contributor: Stojanov, Georgi contributor: Balkenius, Christian date: 2005 type: Conference Poster type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/4993/1/miyamoto.pdf identifier: 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] relation: http://cogprints.org/4993/