Soichiro Matsuda

Soichiro Matsuda

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Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba | Behavioral Design Lab

Smiles of Children with ASD May Facilitate Helping Behaviors to the Robot

Published in Social Robotics. ICSR 2018, 2018

Summary

This study examined whether smiles of children with autism spectrum disorder may facilitate helping behaviors toward a robot. The work focused on observable social signals and helping responses in a child–robot interaction context.

The study contributes to the Measuring and Autism Support lines by treating smiles and helping behaviors as observable interactional events in robot-mediated settings. It also provides an early basis for later work on smiles as signals of prosocial behavior toward robots in therapeutic contexts.

Research line

  • Measuring: observation of smiles and helping behaviors during child–robot interaction
  • Autism Support: robot-mediated interaction with children with autism spectrum disorder
  • Social Robots: prosocial responses toward robots in social interaction contexts

Kim, S., Hirokawa, M., Matsuda, S., Funahashi, A., & Suzuki, K. (2018). Smiles of children with ASD may facilitate helping behaviors to the robot. In S. Ge et al. (Eds.), Social Robotics. ICSR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05204-1_6

Recommended citation: Kim, S., Hirokawa, M., Matsuda, S., Funahashi, A., & Suzuki, K. (2018). Smiles of children with ASD may facilitate helping behaviors to the robot. In S. Ge et al. (Eds.), Social Robotics. ICSR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05204-1_6
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