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Affect-Sensitive Computing and Autism

Affect-Sensitive Computing and Autism

Karla Conn Welch, Uttama Lahiri, Nilanjan Sarkar, Zachary Warren, Wendy Stone, Changchun Liu
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781616928926|ISBN10: 1616928921|EISBN13: 9781616928940
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch015
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Welch, Karla Conn, et al. "Affect-Sensitive Computing and Autism." Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, edited by Didem Gökçay and Gülsen Yildirim, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 325-343. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch015

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Welch, K. C., Lahiri, U., Sarkar, N., Warren, Z., Stone, W., & Liu, C. (2011). Affect-Sensitive Computing and Autism. In D. Gökçay & G. Yildirim (Eds.), Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives (pp. 325-343). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch015

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Welch, Karla Conn, et al. "Affect-Sensitive Computing and Autism." In Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, edited by Didem Gökçay and Gülsen Yildirim, 325-343. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-892-6.ch015

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Abstract

This chapter covers the application of affective computing using a physiological approach to children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) during human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-robot interaction (HRI). Investigation into technology-assisted intervention for children with ASD has gained momentum in recent years. Clinicians involved in interventions must overcome the communication impairments generally exhibited by children with ASD by adeptly inferring the affective cues of the children to adjust the intervention accordingly. Similarly, an intelligent system, such as a computer or robot, must also be able to understand the affective needs of these children - an ability that the current technology-assisted ASD intervention systems lack - to achieve effective interaction that addresses the role of affective states in HCI, HRI, and intervention practice.

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