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Current assistive technologies can improve the quality of life of people who have been diagnosed with different forms of Social Communications Disorders (SCD). In this paper we describe the way in which we have approached an assistive system for improving SCD, based on human-avatar interaction. Since the final development is in progress, this paper contributes with a general taxonomy that classifies the different kinds of interaction between humans and avatars, including the relationship among them and their communication skills. These skills are typically training to treat SCD.
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This work was conducted in the context of UBIHEALTH project under International Research Staff Exchange Schema (MC-IRSES 316337).
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Johnson, E., Hervás, R., Mondéjar, T., Bravo, J., Ochoa, S.F. (2015). Improving Social Communication Disorders Through Human-Avatar Interaction. In: Bravo, J., Hervás, R., Villarreal, V. (eds) Ambient Intelligence for Health. AmIHEALTH 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26508-7_23
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