https://pourya-shahverdi.github.io/tags/autism/AutismHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usSat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://pourya-shahverdi.github.io/media/icon_hu15726295890017452614.pnghttps://pourya-shahverdi.github.io/tags/autism/https://pourya-shahverdi.github.io/project/robot-mediated-group-instruction/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://pourya-shahverdi.github.io/project/robot-mediated-group-instruction/<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>This project designed and studied a robot-mediated group-instruction intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder. The work addresses a practical limitation in much of the existing literature: social-robot interventions are often evaluated one-on-one, while classroom participation requires children to navigate shared attention, peers, and changing group dynamics.</p> <h2 id="research-focus">Research Focus</h2> <p>The intervention gave children opportunities to practice attending to and responding to instructional requests in a group setting. The study compared learning behavior during robot-led and human-led sessions across multiple intervention sessions, with an emphasis on whether the robot could support sustained participation rather than only a short novelty effect.</p> <h2 id="contribution">Contribution</h2> <p>Learning behaviors were similar across robot-led and human-led instruction, and the study did not observe a novelty effect over repeated sessions. The project contributes evidence that social robots can be designed as structured educational partners for group-interaction practice, not only as one-to-one tutoring systems.</p> <h2 id="project-links">Project Links</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10442499" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the RO-MAN publication</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/c37KEdAKoII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch the project video</a></li> </ul>