Development of a virtual agent based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders

摘要: Virtual agents have been investigated as an educational tool for use with children on the autistic spectrum positive results being gained language skills of autonomous and social human-controlled agents. This project combines these ideas to investigate utility teaching skills. The virtual agent used in this project, known Thinking Head, has ability realistically portray facial expressions that lends it task. Two prototype modules were developed platform, one basic conversation other dealing bullying. In a pre-test-post-test evaluation, group autism who exposed training obtained significantly higher post-test scores their knowledge two topics. addition, responses post-training survey indicated participants found tutor enjoyable useful.