@inproceedings{fcedcdd3635e4b578e1e92e273b626f3,
title = "Neurodiverse Human-Machine Interaction and Collaborative Problem-Solving in Social VR",
abstract = "Social motor coordination is an important mechanism responsible for creating shared understanding but can be a challenge for Autistic individuals. Social virtual reality (VR) provides an opportunity to create a safe and inclusive environment for which interactions can be augmented to promote social interactivity. Due to the bi-directional nature of social interaction and adaptation, we created a framework to explore social motor coordination with a virtual artificial agent which can exhibit human-like behaviors. In this experiment, we assessed the interactive behaviors of participants completing a collaborative problem-solving task with the agent using multidimensional cross-recurrence quantification analysis (mdCRQA). Our results show that participants who discovered novel solutions to the task exhibited greater coupling to the artificial agent regardless of participant characteristics. Future work will explore how social VR environments can be augmented to promote social coordination.",
keywords = "autism spectrum disorder (ASD), collaborative problem-solving, coordination, social VR, virtual agents",
author = "Patrick Nalepka and Nathan Caruana and Kaplan, {David M.} and Kallen, {Rachel W.} and Elizabeth Pellicano and Richardson, {Michael J.}",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1145/3527188.3563933",
language = "English",
series = "HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "293--295",
editor = "Christoph Bartneck and Takayuki Kanda and Mohammad Obaid and Wafa Johal",
booktitle = "HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction",
note = "10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2022 ; Conference date: 05-12-2022 Through 08-12-2022",
}