@inproceedings{84cb215da2a941a88fefb90b6f8f511b,
title = "Lexical representation of emotions for high functioning autism(HFA) via emotional story intervention using smart media",
abstract = "Children with High-Functioning Autism (HFA) have difficulty understanding and using emotional expressions. A variety of smart media, such as tablet PCs and robots, are being used to train children with autism spectrum disorders on emotional vocabulary use through language therapy. In this work, we explore the effectiveness of robot-based intervention (compared with PC-based intervention) on children with HFA, in particular, we evaluate the impact of using emotional stories to understand how intervention impacts the total number (and the diversity) of words to express their emotions. Our initial results revealed that children with HFA showed significantly higher performance when using robot intervention than PCs, in terms of the total number of emotional words used. Our study thus suggests that robot-based intervention can be used as a potential therapeutic tool for training children with HFA to increase their ability to use words to express their emotions.",
keywords = "Autism, Emotional words, Language therapy, Story intervention",
author = "Minkyeong Jeong and Kim, {Young Tae} and Dongsun Yim and Yeon, {Seok Jeong} and Seokwoo Song and John Kim",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (NRF-2012-S1A5A2A-03034254).; null ; Conference date: 18-04-2015 Through 23-04-2015",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/2702613.2732750",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1983--1988",
booktitle = "CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}