{"id":169916,"date":"2023-08-17T23:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-avatars-help-autistic-people-hone-social-skills-on-demand"},"modified":"2023-08-17T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:23:54","slug":"ai-avatars-help-autistic-people-hone-social-skills-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-avatars-help-autistic-people-hone-social-skills-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"AI Avatars Help Autistic People Hone Social Skills On Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-avatars-help-autistic-people-hone-social-skills-on-demand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autistic individuals will soon be able to practice and improve their social skills through realistic conversations with avatars powered by generative AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>Autism is a developmental disorder that affects how people interact and communicate, often hindering diagnosed individuals in social situations. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iidc.indiana.edu\/irca\/articles\/making-and-keeping-friends.html#:~:text=Impairment%20in%20social%20functioning%20is, and%20taking%20another%20person's%20perspective\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many cases<\/a>, autistic individuals struggle to initiate conversations, respond to the initiations and non-verbal cues of others, maintain eye contact, and take on another person\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The web-based Skill Coach application developed by Israeli startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ar-rows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arrows<\/a> lets users engage in conversations in a variety of scenarios \u2013 from chatting with a stranger in a caf\u00e9 to making small talk with a work colleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autistic individuals will soon be able to practice and improve their social skills through realistic conversations with avatars powered by generative AI technology. Autism is a developmental disorder that affects how people interact and communicate, often hindering diagnosed individuals in social situations. In many cases, autistic individuals struggle to initiate conversations, respond to the initiations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}