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Enhancing Social Communication Through Story-Telling Among High-Functioning Children with Autism

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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3814))

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We describe a first prototype of a system for storytelling for high functioning children with autism. The system, based on the Story-Table developed by IRST-itc, is aimed at supporting a group of children in the activity of storytelling. The system is based on a unique multi-user touchable device (the MERL Diamond Touch) designed with the purpose of enforcing collaboration between users. The instructions were simplified in order to allow children with communication disabilities to learn and operate the story table. First pilot results are very encouraging. The children were enthusiastic about communicating through the ST and appeared to be able to learn to operate it with little difficulty.

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  1. LIRT, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Israel

    E. Gal, E. Gazit & P. L. Weiss

  2. ITC-irst, via Sommarive 18, 38050, Povo, Italy

    D. Goren-Bar, A. Cappelletti, F. Pianesi, O. Stock & M. Zancanaro

  3. School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Israel

    N. Bauminger

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  1. The MITRE Corporation, Information Technology Center (ITC), 202 Burlington Road, 01730-1420, Bedford, MA, USA

    Mark Maybury

  2. FBK-irst, I-38050, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Oliviero Stock

  3. German Research Center for AI, DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Wolfgang Wahlster

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Gal, E. et al. (2005). Enhancing Social Communication Through Story-Telling Among High-Functioning Children with Autism. In: Maybury, M., Stock, O., Wahlster, W. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3814. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590323_43

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