Robotics, 3D virtual worlds and social stories. A proposal for Autism Spectrum Disorder

The studies on robotics and immersive virtual worlds with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder highlight a growing attention on the identification of affordances that such technologies have and on their impact for the development of social comprehension. The article will deal with a discussion of some researches in the field as well as of affordance of technologies of interest to introduce the design of a specific learning path for the creation of social stories for the comprehension of a specific emotion. Technologies will play the role of mediators at different levels: from the natural setting to the virtual one and from the interaction human-robot to the interaction avatar-robot.