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Systematic Review of Technological Aids to Social Interaction in Autistic Spectrum Disorders from Transversal Perspectives: Psychology, Technology and Therapy

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Multiple technological aids have been proposed to support the social interactions of people with autism. The literature is extensive, but in many of the works there is a lack of clear processes focused on improving social skills. In this paper, we analyse a selection of 57 technological supports from the last 10 years, whose main characteristic is the quality and clarity of the design and evaluation processes. The objective is to provide the research community with a complete and interdisciplinary map** of the main technological supports applied to social interaction, identifying the existing relationships between different axes of analysis: the psychological theories that support each approach, the types of technology used and the therapeutic models applied.

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This appendix contains tables with the counts of articles that cover each pair of possible values when crossing the different social skills covered in our review with those of psychological theories, types of technology, treatment models, intervention strategies, assessment methods and characteristics of the experimental groups. The numbers in each table add up to 57, corresponding to the number of papers we have analysed.

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Guerrero-Vásquez, L.F., López-Nores, M., Pazos-Arias, J.J. et al. Systematic Review of Technological Aids to Social Interaction in Autistic Spectrum Disorders from Transversal Perspectives: Psychology, Technology and Therapy. Rev J Autism Dev Disord (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-022-00347-1

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