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Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
University of Haifa

Email: tamar@research.haifa.ac.il

Web: http://hw.haifa.ac.il/occupa/LIRT
References of published work related to autism research:
Gal, E., Goren-Bar, D., Gazit, E., Bauminger, N. Cappelletti, A., Pianesi, F., Stock, O., Zancanaro, M. and Weiss, P.L. Enhancing social communication through story-telling among high-functioning children with autism. Intelligent Technologies for interactive entertainment (Intetain 2005), Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, November, 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3814 pp. 320-323, Springer-Verlag GmbH.

Bauminger, N., Gal, E., Goren-Bar, D., Kupersmitt, J., Pianesi, F., Stock, O., Weiss, P.L., Yifat, R. and Zancanaro, M. Enhancing Social Communication in High-Functioning Children with Autism through a Co-located Interface. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design, Trento, Italy, July 2-4, pp. 15-23, 2007.

Josman, N., Milika Ben-Chaim, H., Friedrich, S. and Weiss, P.L. Effectiveness of virtual reality for teaching street-crossing skills to children and adolescents with autism. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 7: 49-56, 2008.

Gal, E., Bauminger, N., Goren-Bar, D., Pianesi, F., Stock,O., Zancanaro, M. and Weiss, P.L. Enhancing social communication of children with high functioning autism through a co-located interface. Artificial Intelligence & Society, in press.

Battocchi, A., Gal, E., Ben Sasson, A., Pianesi, F., Venuti, P., Zancanaro, M. and Weiss, P.L. The Collaborative Puzzle Game - an Interface for Studying Collaboration and Social Interaction for children who are typically developed or who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated technologies, M Maia, Portugal., September, 2008, pp 127-34.
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