Parenting Journal · Volume 3 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
How to Implement Robots in Interventions for Children with Autism? A Co-creation Study Involving People with Autism, Parents and Professionals
Originally published 2017-07-06 · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s10803-017-3235-9 ↗
AI / system type
Semi-autonomous social robot; KASPAR co-design
Family implicationsDesign, ethics, stakeholder or technical evidence with child/family implications; household benefits are not assumed.
The AI connection
Co-designs interventions using KASPAR, a robot with automatic, controlled and semi-autonomous modes.
Why this reading matters
Documents practical implementation requirements and explicit stakeholder collaboration.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
How can families and autistic people shape a robot intervention before it reaches children?
Maps to Collaboration through parents, autistic adults and professionals jointly specifying robot-supported interventions.
Study context
73 focus-group participants plus 22 co-creators, including two parents and four autistic adults
Age / stage: Targets children with autism; adult co-design participants
Read with three questions
- Which requirements concerned the child, environment and professional?
- How did the intervention-description template aid collaboration?
- Whose voices were less represented in the co-creation sessions?
Keep the limits in view
Design requirements and intervention ideas, not a child-outcome trial; only two parents in co-creation and no child co-design cohort.
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Claire A. G. J. Huijnen; Monique A. S. Lexis; Rianne Jansens; Luc P. de Witte (2017). How to Implement Robots in Interventions for Children with Autism? A Co-creation Study Involving People with Autism, Parents and Professionals Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3235-9
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