Society should care about those with special needs. Part of a proper care involves thedevelopment of new technologies and devices aiming at improving their quality of life. Researchconducted at universities on this subject should be followed by the industrial development ofcommercial products and governmental institutions may play an important role by establishingconditions ensuring that the results are made available to those who need them. This paperpresents the details of a system, still at the early stages of research level, aimed at helping childrenwith Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It uses ZECA, a humanoid robot Zeno R-50, acting as thepromoter of the interaction with children, by teaching colours and geometric figures in the contextof two educational game scenarios: identification of five geometric figures and identification of fivecolours. So far, the system was tested in a school environment with typically developing children, inorder to validate the experimental setup and the game design. The results obtained in these testsallowed optimizing the system before starting the work in elementary schools with children withASD, which is the next step in the research.
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