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dc.contributor.authorHo, W.C.
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Megan
dc.contributor.authorDautenhahn, K.
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-22T10:01:29Z
dc.date.available2011-11-22T10:01:29Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationHo , W C , Davis , M & Dautenhahn , K 2009 , Supporting narrative understanding of children with autism: A story interface with autonomous autobiographic agents . in Procs IEEE 11th Int Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics : ICORR 2009 . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , pp. 905-911 , IEEE 11th Int Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics , Kyoto , Japan , 23/06/09 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209580
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dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4244-3789-4
dc.identifier.otherdspace: 2299/3873
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/7076
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dc.description.abstractRecent studies in education for children with autism demonstrated that computer assisted learning can increase children's narrative understanding. However, software interfaces which include autonomous intelligent agents have yet to be explored in this context. In this paper we investigate how a narrative storytelling environment which is populated with virtual characters may help children with autism to understand narrative structure and to remember meaningful events within in a story. The behaviours of characters in the narrative storytelling environment are driven by a cognitive agent architecture and, in particular, a specially designed computational autobiographic memory (AM) which allows the virtual characters to remember and express emotional experiences. An application named virtual agent story interface (VASI) has been developed to visualise the agents' AMs and to help the children to reconstruct their own version of a story. In this paper we describe related research in the area, the overall design rationale of VASI, details of the VASI software design and the preliminary evaluation study.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
dc.relation.ispartofProcs IEEE 11th Int Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics
dc.titleSupporting narrative understanding of children with autism: A story interface with autonomous autobiographic agentsen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Computer Science
dc.contributor.institutionScience & Technology Research Institute
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