Abstract
Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)have marked impairments in social interaction. Imitation is a basic social interaction behavior, and mimicking as an element of imitation can be a diagnostic marker for autism and thus a skill that can be targeted by behavioral training. In a comparative study between children with and without autism (n=20), we designed a test that aims to find differences in mimicking expressiveness in a real-life setting. The Wii boxing game was chosen as an environment that can trigger expressiveness in children. Two measures were chosen to rate expressiveness: using observers and using a Microsoft Kinect 3-D camera in combination with motion analysis software. Results from the software tool show that the ASD-group is not influenced by the expressiveness of a confederate, while the control-group is. These results suggest that autistic children do not mimic expressiveness in game play and that this can be detected using a software tool.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012) and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT '12) 3-5 September 2012, Amsterdam |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Pages | 944-949 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-5638-1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |