Adequacy of game scenarios for an object with Playware Technology to promote emotion recognition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

Every human interaction is emphasized by the participants’ emotional states and manifestations. Being unable to understand the emotional state of the others is a significant deficit for anyone. This is the situation children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) usually find themselves in. Thus, re-searchers are exploring different technologies, such as Objects based on Playware Technology and social robots, in order to improve the emotion recognition skills of individuals with ASD. Following this trend, an im-proved Object of Playware Technology to be used in a storytelling activity as an add-on to the human-robot interaction with children with ASD, is pro-posed in the present work. Additionally, an evaluation of the images devel-oped for the game scenario was conducted through an online questionnaire. Overall, the storytelling scenarios were well interpreted by the participants, matching a mean accuracy of 90%.