Android Robot Promotes Disclosure of Negative Narratives by Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders.

ABSTRACT: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) demonstrate some challenges with personal narrative writing. Sentence completion tests (SCT) is a class of semi-structured projective techniques and encourage respondents to disclose their private narratives. Even in SCT, only providing beginning of sentences is inadequate to compensate atypicalities in their creativity and imagination, and self-disclosure is difficult for many individuals with ASD. It is reported that many individuals with ASD often achieve a higher degree of task engagement through interactions with robots and that robotic systems may be useful in eliciting and promoting social communication such as self-disclosure for some individuals with ASD. There is a possibility that exemplification by android robots in place of

SUBMITTER: Kumazaki H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240260 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature