"Sorry to Disturb You": Autism and Robot Interruptions

Peter Edward McKenna; Ingo Keller; Jose L. Part; Mei Yii Lim; Ruth Aylett; Frank Broz; Gnanathusharan Rajendran

doi:10.1145/3371382.3378340

"Sorry to Disturb You": Autism and Robot Interruptions

Peter Edward McKenna, Ingo Keller, Jose L. Part, Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz, Gnanathusharan Rajendran

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Abstract

Here, we present a novel experiment on the yet unstudied phenomenon of Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) adults’ responses to interruption, using a robot role-play clerical task. Using an IQ, gender, and task parameter matched neuroypical (NT) control sample, we found that adults with ASC experience marginally less task disruption from a robot interrupter comparatively to a human. We surmise that robot-assisted therapy for adults with the condition is a potential research avenue worth further exploration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	360-362
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450370578
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378340
Publication status	Published - 23 Mar 2020
Event	15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Mar 2020 → 26 Mar 2020 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/

Conference

Conference	15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020
Abbreviated title	HRI 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	23/03/20 → 26/03/20
Internet address	https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/

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McKenna, PE, Keller, I, Part, JL, Lim, MY, Aylett, R, Broz, F & Rajendran, G 2020, "Sorry to Disturb You": Autism and Robot Interruptions. in HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 360-362, 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23/03/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378340

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