Avatar Assistant: Improving Social Skills in Students with an ASD Through a Computer-Based Intervention

By Ingrid Maria Hopkins, Michael W. Gower, Trista A. Perez, Dana S. Smith, Franklin R. Amthor, F. Casey Wimsatt, Fred J. Biasini. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011

350 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Occupational Therapy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/cc972c034d1b4ad49f2466f54b9f5d64c18d7f87

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

1. F. Pérez-Diaz
2. Sarah Parsons
3. Eynat Gal
4. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
5. Ouriel Grynszpan
6. Heleen Riper

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
2. F. Pérez-Diaz
3. Sarah Parsons
4. Tim J. Smith
5. Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
6. Eynat Gal
7. Sara Bernardini
8. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss

In Occupational Therapy

1. F. Pérez-Diaz
2. Eynat Gal
3. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
4. Ouriel Grynszpan

Citations in the corpus

• Innovative technology-based interventions for autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis (2014, methodology): “Nevertheless, the last few years have witnessed a rise in the number of studies assessing technology-based interventions (Faja et al., 2012; Golan et al., 2010; Hopkins et al., 2011; Tanaka et al., 2010; Travers et al., 2011; Whalen et al., 2010).”
• ECHOES: An intelligent serious game for fostering social communication in children with autism (2014, background): “FaceSay [28], which is a commercial product, provides children with low-functioning autism (LFA) and high functioning autism (HFA) with opportunities to practice attending to eye gaze, discriminating facial expressions and recognising faces and emotions in a structured environment where they…”
• Recognition of Emotions in Autism: A Formal Meta-Analysis (2013, background): “Some interventions for autism specifically teach emotion recognition skills (Golan et al. 2010; Hopkins et al. 2011).”
• Embodied Conversational Agents in Clinical Psychology: A Scoping Review (2017, positive): “The second study used a computer program to improve joint attention, and emotion and face recognition in children with autism [22].”
• Authenticity in virtual reality for assessment and intervention in Autism: a conceptual review (2016, background): “Related evidence from Hopkins et al. (2011) also found that lower-functioning children with autism (with lower verbal abilities) respond differently from higher-functioning children.”