Towards Robot-Assisted Social Skills Training for Adults with ASC Peter McKenna Frank Broz Ingo Keller Jose L. Part Gnanathusharan Rajendran Ruth Aylet p.mckenna@hw.ac.uk f.broz@hw.ac.uk ijk1@hw.ac.uk j.part@hw.ac.uk t.rajendran@hw.ac.uk r.s.aylet@hw.ac.uk Heriot-Wat University EH14 4AS Edinburgh, UK ABSTRACT Despite the popularity of research on robot-assisted therapy for children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC), there has been a lack of study of the use of robots in therapy for adults. This paper describes progress towards designing robot-assisted therapy for adults with ASC that will allow people to rehearse workplace-relevant social skills. We summarize our prior work on designing interpretable facial expressions for our low degree-of-freedom robot face and describe an in-progress human-robot interaction study involving interruption during a realistic workplace scenario. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s). CHI ’19, Glasgow, UK © 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).