TY - GEN
T1 - Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children
AU - Li, Jamy
AU - Davison, Daniel
AU - Alcorn, Alyssa
AU - Williams, Alria
AU - Dimitrijevic, Snezana Babovic
AU - Petrovic, Suncica
AU - Chevalier, Pauline
AU - Schadenberg, Bob
AU - Ainger, Eloise
AU - Pellicano, Liz
AU - Evers, Vanessa
PY - 2020/6/30
Y1 - 2020/6/30
N2 - Autistic children with limited language ability are an important but overlooked community. We develop a teacher-teleoperated robot and tablet system, as well as learning activities, to help teach facial emotions to minimally verbal autistic children. We then conduct user studies with 31 UK and Serbia minimally verbal autistic children to evaluate the system's accessibility. Results showed minimally verbal autistic children could use the tablet interface to control or respond to a humanoid robot and could understand the face learning activities. We found that a flexible and powerful wizard-of-oz tablet interface respected the needs of the children and their teachers. Our work suggests that a non-participatory, user-centered design process can create a robot and tablet system that is accessible to many autistic children.
AB - Autistic children with limited language ability are an important but overlooked community. We develop a teacher-teleoperated robot and tablet system, as well as learning activities, to help teach facial emotions to minimally verbal autistic children. We then conduct user studies with 31 UK and Serbia minimally verbal autistic children to evaluate the system's accessibility. Results showed minimally verbal autistic children could use the tablet interface to control or respond to a humanoid robot and could understand the face learning activities. We found that a flexible and powerful wizard-of-oz tablet interface respected the needs of the children and their teachers. Our work suggests that a non-participatory, user-centered design process can create a robot and tablet system that is accessible to many autistic children.
KW - assistive technology
KW - autism spectrum disorder
KW - facial expressions
KW - human-robot interaction
KW - limited language
KW - minimally verbal autistic children
KW - robot
KW - tablet
KW - teleoperation interface
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088360317
U2 - 10.1145/3389189.3393738
DO - 10.1145/3389189.3393738
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088360317
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 51
EP - 59
BT - 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2020
Y2 - 30 June 2020 through 3 July 2020
ER -