Development of a software-based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group - Design: Open 24/7, OZCHI '09

Volumn 411, Issue , 2009, Pages 265-268

  Milne, Marissa ^a   Powers, David ^a   Leibbrandt, Richard ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ASD; Autism; Autonomous; Virtual agent; Virtual tutor

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIFELIKE APPEARANCE; PROTOTYPE SOFTWARE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL SKILLS; SOFTWARE-BASED; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL TUTORS; WORK IN PROGRESS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTANCE EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77952975450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1738826.1738870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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