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Designing Learning Activities for Improving Social and Imitation Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Humanoid Robot
Yanuarini, Shanti (2024) Designing Learning Activities for Improving Social and Imitation Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Humanoid Robot.
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| Abstract: | Humanoid robot has been widely used in autism intervention due to their capability to improve children’s social and imitation skills. This study aimed to design learning activities using a humanoid robot as an intervention for children with autism. Prior to this, educators were interviewed and surveyed to gather their perspectives on the most challenging skills to teach in the areas of social and imitation skills for children with autism, as well as on their perspective on the use of technology, specifically humanoid robot, in autism intervention. Thematic analysis was conducted on the result of the interviews which involved fourteen participants. The analysis showed that peer interaction, initiating conversation, and commenting to peers were difficult skills in the scope of social skills. Meanwhile, imitation of complex movements was challenging skill in the scope of imitation skills. The next step was the design process, where the game ‘Copy Me’ was developed to improve children’s social skills particularly the interaction skills by initiating conversation and peer commenting through collaborative play. Meanwhile the Imitation of a Complex Sequence activity was developed to improve children’s imitation skills. Three field experts participated in the study and evaluated the design of the learning activity through a questionnaire. The results show that the components of each activity including duration, instruments, outcome, activity, and instruction were appropriate for the intervention. Hence, improvement needs to be made in the assessment sheet and the duration between prompt and response. As a next step, this study suggests that an experimental design should be developed to measure the effectiveness of the learning activities. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/98587 |
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