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A Pilot Usability Study of a Humanoid Avatar to Assist Therapists of ASD Children

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2023)

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Abstract

In this article, we report on a pilot study consisting of an evaluation of the usability satisfaction and effectiveness of a preliminary telerobotic system to assist therapists of children with ASD. Unlike existing pre-programmed robotic systems, our solution beamed therapists in a humanoid robot (Pepper) to reproduce in real-time the therapist’s gestures, speech and visual feedback aiming to embody the therapist in a humanoid robot avatar and be able to perform activities during an ESDM intervention. Evaluations of our system, used by eleven therapists in internal tests during mock session without children, are reported and suggest that future use in real therapy sessions with ASD children can begin.

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  1. CNRS -University of Montpellier, Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Carole Fournier, Arnaud Tanguy & Abderrahmane Kheddar

  2. Centre Ressources Autisme Languedoc-Roussillon and Center of Excellence for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Cécile Michelon, Paul Audoyer, Véronique Granit & Amaria Baghdadli

  3. Faculty of Medicine, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Amaria Baghdadli

  4. CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, IRL3218, Tsukuba, Japan

    Abderrahmane Kheddar

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Fournier, C. et al. (2024). A Pilot Usability Study of a Humanoid Avatar to Assist Therapists of ASD Children. In: Ali, A.A., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14453 . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8715-3_28

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