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Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Virtual Reality in the Inclusion of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

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Innovative Technologies and Learning (ICITL 2023)

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Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been evolving in recent decades, allowing simulating real-life situations in controlled and safe virtual environments, where they reveal increasingly realistic details. There is an increase in the number of publications on virtual reality interventions in different areas, especially in Education, particularly in interventions with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The lack of social skills prevents these children diagnosed with ASD to respond appropriately and adapt to the most diverse daily social situations. On this basis, VR has revealed a set of evidences that present promising results and show great acceptance among the diversified population with ASD. In order to understand how VR may contribute to the improvement of skills, allowing their inclusion, we conducted a systematic review of the literature. We present considerations on the selected studies, identifying the main gaps and pointing out possible directions for future research.

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    Diana Carvalho, Paulo Martins & Tânia Rocha

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Silva, R.M., Carvalho, D., Martins, P., Rocha, T. (2023). Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Virtual Reality in the Inclusion of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In: Huang, YM., Rocha, T. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14099. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40113-8_49

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