Initiating Friendship by Children with Autism in an Intelligent Virtual Reality Environment

• In Event: INT- Designing with & Implementing Technology (v)

Short Description

Situated in the specific cultural context in China, it is emergent to develop interventions to foster their academic, social, and behavior skills within the specific cultural context. There is limited number of studies that aim to research how both artificial intelligence technology and VR technology can assist in autism interventions. This situation is especially worse in China where there is urgent lack of training personnel and agencies because of huge population of people diagnosed with Autism, the combination of AI and VR technology has the potential of providing timely and effective interventions to autism kids.

Authors

• Presenter: Peidi Gu, Beijing Normal University

• Contributor: Tsung-han Weng, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, University of Kansas

• Presenter: Li Yuan, Beijing Normal University

• Contributor: Xueqin Qian, Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, University of Kansas

• Contributor: Zhipeng Zeng, Beijing Normal University