Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intelligent Robotic Response to Joint Attention Intervention System.
Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of non-invasive brain stimulation and digital intervention on social cognitive therapy in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of social skills training interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Saudi medical journal · 2025Pooled it
- Assisted Robots in Therapies for Children with Autism in Early Childhood.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Information and communication technologies-based interventions for children with autism spectrum conditions: a systematic review of randomized control trials from a positive technology perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Joint attention in autism: A narrative review of assessment techniques from behavioral observation to artificial intelligence.Behavior research methods · 2026Review
- Digital interventions for autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric investigation · 2024Article
- Interactive mirrOring Games wIth sOCial rObot (IOGIOCO): a pilot study on the use of intransitive gestures in a sample of Italian preschool children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Optimizing Voice Recognition Informatic Robots for Effective Communication in Outpatient Settings.Cureus · 2023Article
- Comparing the effectiveness of robot-based to human-based intervention in improving joint attention in autistic children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Behavioral Data Analysis of Robot-Assisted Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Interventions Based on Lattice Computing Techniques.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- An Immersive Computer-Mediated Caregiver-Child Interaction System for Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2021Article
- Presidential Address, 2020-Using Technology to Deliver Services and Supports in Homes, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Evidence and Promise.Intellectual and developmental disabilities · 2020Review
- Optimal robot for intervention for individuals with autism spectrum disorders.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2020Review
- Repetitive Robot Behavior Impacts Perception of Intentionality and Gaze-Related Attentional Orienting.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2020Article
- Intervention Deploying an Autonomous Robot Promotes Eye Gaze Abilities of Autistic Children: Comparison With a Human-Based Intervention.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Abstract
Although there has been growing interest in utilizing robots for intervention in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there have been very few controlled trials to assess the actual impacts of such systems on social communication vulnerabilities. This study reports a randomized controlled trial to investigate a robot-mediated response to joint attention intervention in a small (23 recruited; 20 completed) group of young children (average age = 2.54 years) with ASD. Small and nonsignificant group differences were observed regarding improvements in response to joint attention skills within and beyond the intervention. The sample showed tremendous individual variability in response to the system. Results highlight the current challenges related to developing pragmatic, beneficial, and generalizable robotic intervention systems for the targeted population.
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