Pioggia Giovanni, Igliozzi Roberta, Ferro Marcello, Ahluwalia Arti, Muratori Filippo, De Rossi Danilo
Interdepartmental Research Center E Piaggio, the Faculty of Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy.
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2005 Dec;13(4):507-15. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2005.856076.
It is well documented that the processing of social and emotional information is impaired in people with autism. Recent studies have shown that individuals, particularly those with high functioning autism, can learn to cope with common social situations if they are made to enact possible scenarios they may encounter in real life during therapy. The main aim of this work is to describe an interactive life-like facial display (FACE) and a supporting therapeutic protocol that will enable us to verify if the system can help children with autism to learn, identify, interpret, and use emotional information and extend these skills in a socially appropriate, flexible, and adaptive context. The therapeutic setup consists of a specially equipped room in which the subject, under the supervision of a therapist, can interact with FACE. The android display and associated control system has automatic facial tracking, expression recognition, and eye tracking. The treatment scheme is based on a series of therapist-guided sessions in which a patient communicates with FACE through an interactive console. Preliminary data regarding the exposure to FACE of two children are reported.
有充分文献记载，自闭症患者处理社交和情感信息的能力受损。最近的研究表明，个体，尤其是高功能自闭症患者，如果在治疗过程中被要求模拟他们在现实生活中可能遇到的场景，就能学会应对常见的社交情况。这项工作的主要目的是描述一种交互式的逼真面部展示（FACE）和一种辅助治疗方案，这将使我们能够验证该系统是否能帮助自闭症儿童学习、识别、解读和使用情感信息，并在社交适当、灵活和适应性的背景下扩展这些技能。治疗设置包括一个特殊装备的房间，在治疗师的监督下，受试者可以在其中与FACE进行互动。该机器人展示和相关控制系统具有自动面部跟踪、表情识别和眼睛跟踪功能。治疗方案基于一系列由治疗师指导的疗程，患者通过交互式控制台与FACE进行交流。报告了两名儿童接触FACE的初步数据。
