TY - GEN
T1 - Feel as agent
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2015
AU - Sugaya, Midori
AU - Osawa, Hirotaka
AU - Okada, Yoshiko
AU - Giannopulu, Irini
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/10/21
Y1 - 2015/10/21
N2 - Children suffering with learning and developmental disorders require daily training to develop their social skills. However, such daily training is sometimes not provided because it requires interactive help from therapists, and lots of special programs required for the training. We proposed an immersive digital dollhouse that enhances traditional psychological play therapy with sensors installed, while provides feedback from the sensors to the computer graphics (CG). The immersive digital dollhouse provides an immersive space for children, which develops their communication skills through their imaginary play with the complement of CG for enhancing the understanding of their situation, and it is easy to use in their home as daily training. We conducted an experiment with a 6-year old child with a similar level as the older children with developmental disorders. We found that the number of reactions was twice as many as with a normal dollhouse, and the number of miscommunications was less than onetenth.
AB - Children suffering with learning and developmental disorders require daily training to develop their social skills. However, such daily training is sometimes not provided because it requires interactive help from therapists, and lots of special programs required for the training. We proposed an immersive digital dollhouse that enhances traditional psychological play therapy with sensors installed, while provides feedback from the sensors to the computer graphics (CG). The immersive digital dollhouse provides an immersive space for children, which develops their communication skills through their imaginary play with the complement of CG for enhancing the understanding of their situation, and it is easy to use in their home as daily training. We conducted an experiment with a 6-year old child with a similar level as the older children with developmental disorders. We found that the number of reactions was twice as many as with a normal dollhouse, and the number of miscommunications was less than onetenth.
KW - Children
KW - Design
KW - Developmental disorders
KW - Immersive play therapy
KW - Play therapy device
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U2 - 10.1145/2814940.2814963
DO - 10.1145/2814940.2814963
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962850886
T3 - HAI 2015 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
SP - 127
EP - 134
BT - HAI 2015 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 21 October 2015 through 24 October 2015
ER -