A pilot study for robot appearance preferences among high-functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorder: Implications for therapeutic use

• Hirokazu Kumazaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kumazaki@tiara.ocn.ne.jp

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research on Social Recognition and Memory, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan, Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Special Education, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2567-0276

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• Zachary Warren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Special Education, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Taro Muramatsu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuichiro Yoshikawa,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, JST ERATO ISHIGURO Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan

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• Yoshio Matsumoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Service Robotics Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Masutomo Miyao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosocial Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mitsuko Nakano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosocial Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

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• Sakae Mizushima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosocial Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yujin Wakita,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Service Robotics Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hiroshi Ishiguro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, JST ERATO ISHIGURO Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan

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• Masaru Mimura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshio Minabe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research on Social Recognition and Memory, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan

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• Mitsuru Kikuchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research on Social Recognition and Memory, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan

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