%0 Journal Article %1 Tartaro:2014:APS:2700996.2700434 %A Tartaro, Andrea %A Cassell, Justine %A Ratz, Corina %A Lira, Jennifer %A Nanclares-Nogués, Valeria %C New York, NY, USA %D 2014 %I ACM %J ACM Trans. Access. Comput. %K ACM %N 1 %P 2:1--2:29 %R 10.1145/2700434 %T Accessing Peer Social Interaction: Using Authorable Virtual Peer Technology As a Component of a Group Social Skills Intervention Program %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2700434 %V 6 %X Autism spectrum and related communication and social disorders can severely affect some children's ability to engage in peer social interaction. In this article, we describe and evaluate an Authorable Virtual Peer (AVP), technology designed to help children access peer interactions by supporting them in developing critical social skills. Children interact with the AVP in three ways: (1) engaging in face-to-face interaction with a life-sized, computer-animated child; (2) creating new social behaviors for the AVP; and (3) controlling the AVP using a graphical user interface to select appropriate responses while the AVP interacts with another person. Our evaluation suggests that when an AVP is used as an activity during a social group intervention, a common intervention approach used with children with social and communication difficulties, that children's use of specific social behaviors critical to successful social interaction increases during role-play of common social situations with another child.

@article{Tartaro:2014:APS:2700996.2700434, abstract = {Autism spectrum and related communication and social disorders can severely affect some children's ability to engage in peer social interaction. In this article, we describe and evaluate an Authorable Virtual Peer (AVP), technology designed to help children access peer interactions by supporting them in developing critical social skills. Children interact with the AVP in three ways: (1) engaging in face-to-face interaction with a life-sized, computer-animated child; (2) creating new social behaviors for the AVP; and (3) controlling the AVP using a graphical user interface to select appropriate responses while the AVP interacts with another person. Our evaluation suggests that when an AVP is used as an activity during a social group intervention, a common intervention approach used with children with social and communication difficulties, that children's use of specific social behaviors critical to successful social interaction increases during role-play of common social situations with another child.}, acmid = {2700434}, added-at = {2015-03-16T21:37:11.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, articleno = {2}, author = {Tartaro, Andrea and Cassell, Justine and Ratz, Corina and Lira, Jennifer and Nanclares-Nogu{\'e}s, Valeria}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/249246d5983bbdd0fce5deac81b035e38/alex_szykman}, doi = {10.1145/2700434}, interhash = {a8dd92416731cda292c05272889ba97b}, intrahash = {49246d5983bbdd0fce5deac81b035e38}, issn = {1936-7228}, issue_date = {March 2015}, journal = {ACM Trans. Access. Comput.}, keywords = {ACM}, month = dec, number = 1, numpages = {29}, pages = {2:1--2:29}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2015-03-16T21:37:11.000+0100}, title = {Accessing Peer Social Interaction: Using Authorable Virtual Peer Technology As a Component of a Group Social Skills Intervention Program}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2700434}, volume = 6, year = 2014 }