Abstract
Autism is a lifelong disability that affects children development in terms of social interaction, communication, and imagination. Children with autism often are not able to communicate in a meaningful way with their surroundings and could not relate to the real world. Encompassing humanoid-robot during the therapy session is said as being one of the most beneficial therapies towards these children since autistic children are reported to be keener in engaging in machinery and gadgets. Due to the limited studies in the perspective of the children’s emotions and feelings, this study adopts Kansei assessment to investigate the emotions and feelings of the autistic children while engaging with the robot. Kansei assessment was done by the teacher which interpreted the emotional responses given by the autistic children. Two autistic children were involved in the study where both of the subjects are having mild autism. The data were then analyzed and translated to Fogg’s Behavioral Model to represent the children’s learning motivation. The developed Modified Fogg’s Behavioral Model successfully shows the inter-relation between the three components of ability, trigger and motivation for the autistic children while they interact with the humanoid-robot. The final model provides some evidence that despite having limited ability, given the right intervention, the children with autism will exhibit the same level of motivation with normal children.
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Aziz, A.A., Moghanan, F.F.M., Mokhsin, M., Ismail, A., Lokman, A.M. (2015). Humanoid-Robot Intervention for Children with Autism: A Conceptual Model on FBM. In: Berry, M., Mohamed, A., Yap, B. (eds) Soft Computing in Data Science. SCDS 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 545. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-936-3_22
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