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- research-articleJune 2024
A VR Intervention to Develop Social Skills in Children with ASD: An Expert Evaluation
IMX '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media ExperiencesPages 30–40https://doi.org/10.1145/3639701.3656322Social interactions hold immense significance in the lives of individuals. Children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may face difficulties when engaging in social situations. These challenges often manifest as neurodivergent behaviours ...
- Work in ProgressAugust 2023
A VR Intervention Based on Social Story™ to Develop Social Skills in Children with ASD
IMX '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media ExperiencesPages 205–208https://doi.org/10.1145/3573381.3596459Social interactions and communication play a crucial role in people’s lives. Those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially children, may have difficulties participating in social interactions. Such challenges can be characterised by displaying ...
- short-paperMarch 2023
Hey Robot, Can You Help Me Feel Less Lonely?: An Explorative Study to Examine the Potential of Using Social Robots to Alleviate Loneliness in Young Adults
HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot InteractionPages 500–505https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580135An often-forgotten group of people which is heavily affected by loneliness are young adults. The perceived social isolation often stems from attachment insecurities and social skill deficiencies. Since robots can function as social interaction partners ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo
Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer ...
- review-articleDecember 2021
Serious Games as a Complementary Tool for Social Skill Development in Young People: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Simulation and Gaming (SIMG), Volume 52, Issue 6Pages 686–714https://doi.org/10.1177/10468781211031283BackgroundThe use of games for social skill development in the classroom is accelerating at a tremendous rate. At the same time, the research surrounding games designed for teaching social skills remains fragmented. This systematic review ...
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- research-articleAugust 2021
Children’s Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes on the Gender, Social Skills, and Interests of a Computer Scientist
ICER 2021: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on International Computing Education ResearchPages 239–251https://doi.org/10.1145/3446871.3469753Motivation Only 27% of computer and mathematical scientists in the United States and 18% of IT specialists in Europe are women. The under-representation of women in the field of Computer Science is, among other things, influenced by stereotypes of ...
- research-articleOctober 2019
Leveraging Participation: Supporting Skills Development of Young Adults with Intellectual Disability Using Social Media
ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityPages 143–155https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3353793Young adults with intellectual disability are keen users of social media. However, there is little understanding about how their skills and participation in social media might be leveraged to support further skills development. Employing a participatory ...
- research-articleOctober 2019
Learning computational thinking and social skills development in young children through problem solving with educational robotics
TEEM'19: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing MulticulturalityPages 19–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3362789.3362874The technological advance that is currently evident in the different social contexts is contributing to consolidate educational processes that allow the strengthening of technological and social skills in students. This paper presents some results ...
- research-articleOctober 2019
Development of a Social Skills Education Game for Elementary School Students
Simulation and Gaming (SIMG), Volume 50, Issue 5Pages 598–620https://doi.org/10.1177/1046878119880228Background. The latest Japanese National Curriculum emphasized the importance of active learning as well as communication skills in various subject areas. Following this trend, the social skills education (SSE) approach was adopted to promote and improve ...
- research-articleSeptember 2019
Can a robot be an efficient mediator in promoting dyadic activities among children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and children of Typical Development?
BCI'19: Proceedings of the 9th Balkan Conference on InformaticsArticle No.: 38, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3351556.3351592Studies have provided evidence that interventions with Socially Assistive Robots (SARs), can help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to develop social skills. This study will outline features of SAR that respond to the heterogeneity of the ASD,...
- research-articleJuly 2019
The Impact of Self-Theories to Academic Achievement and Soft Skills in Undergraduate CS Studies: First Findings
ITiCSE '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science EducationPages 16–22https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3319766There is strong evidence of the impact of self-theories to students' academic achievement and behavior in many domains of education, including CS. However, the research on self-theories in CSE are far from conclusive. In this research, we studied 1st ...
- abstractApril 2018
Beyond Digital Displays: Design Considerations for Tablet Applications Targeting Children with ASD in Sri Lanka
CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPaper No.: LBW079, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188524Technology is being extensively used among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in affluent countries. However, there is a paucity of studies exploring the use of technology for children with ASD in developing countries like Sri Lanka. Therefore,...
- research-articleMarch 2018
Aging and Engaging: A Social Conversational Skills Training Program for Older Adults
- Mohammad Rafayet Ali,
- Kimberly Van Orden,
- Kimberly Parkhurst,
- Shuyang Liu,
- Viet-Duy Nguyen,
- Paul Duberstein,
- M. Ehsan Hoque
IUI '18: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User InterfacesPages 55–66https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172958We developed 'Aging and Engaging, a web-based intelligent interface, to improve communication skills among older adults. The interface allows users to practice conversations with a virtual assistant and receive feedback on eye contact, speaking volume, ...
- abstractNovember 2017
Analyses of the effects of agents' performing self-adaptors
ISIAA 2017: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial AgentsPages 33–34https://doi.org/10.1145/3139491.3139503This paper introduces the results of a series of experiments on the impression of agents that perform self-adaptors. Human-human interactions were video-taped and analyzed with respect to usage of different types of self-adaptors (relaxed/stressful), ...
- abstractOctober 2017
Empathy Development in Young Children Using Interactive VR Games
CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in PlayPages 715–718https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3133229The development of empathy in children age 5 to 8 helps them build social skills such as interpersonal, problem-solving abilities, and emotional regulation. Research in Virtual Reality (VR) and Game Development highlights that use of VR games can help ...
- short-paperSeptember 2017
Analysis of children: humanoid robot interaction to support social skills development
- J. Anibal Arias-Aguilar,
- M. Luz Palacios-Villavicencio,
- Roberto Bretado-Gallegos,
- María Auxilio Medina-Nieto,
- Antonio Benitez Ruiz,
- Verónica Rodríguez-López,
- Jaqueline Estrada-Bautista
Interacción '17: Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Human Computer InteractionArticle No.: 10, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3123818.3123837Children robot interaction1 has shown benefits in academic or medical applications. We started a long-term project with the goal of modifying some social behaviors on disabled children using a humanoid robot that implements tasks that a therapist does ...
- research-articleSeptember 2017
Social skills training with virtual assistant and real-time feedback
UbiComp '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersPages 325–329https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3123196Nonverbal cues are considered the most important part in social communication. Many people desire people; but due to the stigma and unavailability of resources, they are unable to practice their social skills. In this work, we envision a virtual ...
- research-articleMay 2017Honorable Mention
ProCom: Designing and Evaluating a Mobile and Wearable System to Support Proximity Awareness for People with Autism
CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 2865–2877https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026014People with autism are at risk for social isolation due to differences in their perception and engagement with the social world. In this work, we aim to address one specific concern related to socialization the understanding, awareness, and use of ...
- abstractMarch 2017
Towards an Architecture for collaborative Human Robot Interaction in Physiotherapeutic Applications
HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot InteractionPages 319–320https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038393We present an architecture for collaborative Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in physiotherapeutic applications. Our aim is to improve the therapeutic effect by dynamically adapting the task and increasing the user's trust in the robot. First, we derive a ...
- posterSeptember 2016
ProCom: designing a mobile and wearable system to support proximity awareness for people with autism
UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: AdjunctPages 93–96https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971445People with autism are at risk for social isolation due to the differences they experience in how they perceive and engage with the social world. In this work, we aim to address one specific concern related to socialization---the understanding, ...