The digitalisation of services associated with Autism is considered important although its implementation is limited yet. A Digital Twin (DT) is a virtual representation of a physical entity, which not only exhibits any changes in the physical entity, but can affect it in return, as well. This technology holds promises to enhancing autism research, particularly autism assessment, intervention, and rehabilitation. However, despite its growing application in healthcare over the last decade, it has not been broadly adopted in autism research yet. This study aims to present the design of a DT and introduce it in autism educational/intervention processes as a digital copy of them. The development of such a DT can result in real-time performance and supervision of the educational/intervention processes without an educator’s/caretaker’s involvement. The study also discusses potential limitations encountered during the DT design process, as well as recommendations for future research, regarding its effectiveness and applicability.

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A Digital Twin Design for Autism Intervention

  • Konstantinos-Filippos Kollias,
  • Lazaros Moysis,
  • Ilias Siniosoglou,
  • Vasileios Argyriou,
  • Fotis N. Koumboulis,
  • Panagiotis Sarigiannidis,
  • George F. Fragulis

摘要

The digitalisation of services associated with Autism is considered important although its implementation is limited yet. A Digital Twin (DT) is a virtual representation of a physical entity, which not only exhibits any changes in the physical entity, but can affect it in return, as well. This technology holds promises to enhancing autism research, particularly autism assessment, intervention, and rehabilitation. However, despite its growing application in healthcare over the last decade, it has not been broadly adopted in autism research yet. This study aims to present the design of a DT and introduce it in autism educational/intervention processes as a digital copy of them. The development of such a DT can result in real-time performance and supervision of the educational/intervention processes without an educator’s/caretaker’s involvement. The study also discusses potential limitations encountered during the DT design process, as well as recommendations for future research, regarding its effectiveness and applicability.