The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive?

Melanie Jouaiti; Eloise Zehnder; François Charpillet

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_4

The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive?

Melanie Jouaiti, Eloise Zehnder^*, François Charpillet

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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Abstract

It is often overlooked in human-robot gestural interactions that, robot produce sound when they move. That aspect might be either beneficial or detrimental to the interaction, but it should be taken into account, especially in the context of robot-assisted therapy. In this paper, we therefore considered sensory perception in the case of typically developing children and children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and designed a pilot study with twenty participants to evaluate the impact the sound of actuators has on a rhythmic gestural interaction. Participants were asked to perform a waving-like gesture back at a robot in three different conditions: with visual perception only, auditory perception only and both perceptions. We analyze coordination performance and focus of gaze in each condition. Preliminary results indicate that the sound of actuators might be beneficial for children with autism and only slightly disruptive for typically developing children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Robotics
Subtitle of host publication	14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II
Editors	Filippo Cavallo, John-John Cabibihan, Laura Fiorini, Alessandra Sorrentino, Hongsheng He, Xiaorui Liu, Yoshio Matsumoto, Shuzhi Sam Ge
Publisher	Springer
Pages	36-44
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031246708
ISBN (Print)	9783031246692
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_4
Publication status	Published - 2 Feb 2023
Event	14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022 - Florence, Italy Duration: 13 Dec 2022 → 16 Dec 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13818 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	13/12/22 → 16/12/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank all the children and parents who willingly took part in this study and filled in so many questionnaires.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

ASD
Motor coordination
Sensory processing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Jouaiti, M., Zehnder, E., & Charpillet, F. (2023). The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive? In F. Cavallo, J.-J. Cabibihan, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino, H. He, X. Liu, Y. Matsumoto, & S. S. Ge (Eds.), Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 36-44). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13818 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_4

Jouaiti, Melanie ; Zehnder, Eloise ; Charpillet, François. / The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive?. Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. editor / Filippo Cavallo ; John-John Cabibihan ; Laura Fiorini ; Alessandra Sorrentino ; Hongsheng He ; Xiaorui Liu ; Yoshio Matsumoto ; Shuzhi Sam Ge. Springer, 2023. pp. 36-44 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Jouaiti, M, Zehnder, E & Charpillet, F 2023, The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive? in F Cavallo, J-J Cabibihan, L Fiorini, A Sorrentino, H He, X Liu, Y Matsumoto & SS Ge (eds), Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13818 LNAI, Springer, pp. 36-44, 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, 13/12/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_4

The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive? / Jouaiti, Melanie; Zehnder, Eloise; Charpillet, François.
Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. ed. / Filippo Cavallo; John-John Cabibihan; Laura Fiorini; Alessandra Sorrentino; Hongsheng He; Xiaorui Liu; Yoshio Matsumoto; Shuzhi Sam Ge. Springer, 2023. p. 36-44 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13818 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution