Design Path for a Social Robot for Emotional Communication for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Author:

Cano Sandra1,Díaz-Arancibia Jaime2ORCID,Arango-López Jeferson3ORCID,Libreros Julia Elena4,García Matías1

Affiliation:

1. School of Computer Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile

2. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Informática, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco 4811230, Chile

3. Departamento de Sistemas e Informática, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales 170004, Colombia

4. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Cali 760035, Colombia

Abstract

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in social interaction and expressing and understanding emotions. Based on this, robots for children with ASD have been proposed. However, few studies have been conducted about how to design a social robot for children with ASD. Non-experimental studies have been carried out to evaluate social robots; however, the general methodology that should be used to design a social robot is not clear. This study proposes a design path for a social robot for emotional communication for children with ASD following a user-centered design approach. This design path was applied to a case study and evaluated by a group of experts in psychology, human–robot interaction, and human–computer interaction from Chile and Colombia, as well as parents of children with ASD. Our results show that following the proposed design path for a social robot to communicate emotions for children with ASD is favorable.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry

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