A group of researchers have created Socially Assistive Robotics, which uses AI and robotics to help autistic kids to practice social tasks in the context of games. This indeed embodies all that Wiztistic.tech values. Paper: https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/5/39/eaaz3791 Full Story: https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/26/ai-based-intervention-kids-autism/
2011 Parsons and Cobb22 Review article State of VR in education and training for autistic individuals Children can learn information from VR and some can transfer this knowledge to the real world, especially when the skills are procedural and rule Read more…
A specialist care facility in England is using virtual reality (VR) headsets and data mining to help children with autism to acclimatize to scenarios they are likely to encounter outside of school. The VR scenarios introduce children to situations like Read more…
Multimedia training works for everyone, but it can be an excellent way to increase self-efficacy by learning some live skills. It is an initial trial, so the sample size is small. Ten ASD adults, seven men and three women, 19 Read more…
Despite the small size and preliminary state, this study builds on top of other programs that have been used to get familiar with uncommon scenarios as well as social skills training. This study focus on VR-based air travel functional communication Read more…
Technology does not need to be complex to work well. Hugh Murtagh from Coláiste Mhuire in Co Westmeath has designed wristband that will help students with Autism alert their teachers in a subtle manner when they feel they need a Read more…
Over a year ago, a group of students from the Kent Career Tech Center build a VR system to help autistic people train and learn on social interaction. They were finalists on the Samsung “Solve for Tomorrow”. That idea has Read more…
The program created by esearchers at Vanderbilt’s Frist Center For Autism is named CIRVR. It uses avatars, cameras, microphones and sensors to prepare neuro-diverse job candidates. It has been previewed at Nashville on November 2019.
In a new pilot study, autistic adults showed real-life, functional improvement after a combination treatment approach that included graded exposure to fear and anxiety-producing experiences in a virtual reality environment. The design and preliminary results of this novel approach are Read more…
Google glass can be used to help give contextual information, in this case analyse the facial expressions of the people in front of you and notify them to the wearer, so they can learn to recognise them with practical examples Read more…