Social narratives help autistic children understand and navigate social situations through stories. To ensure effective practice, however, they often require significant time and effort from parents in customizing the narrative materials and delivering repeated instructions on them. We present AutiHero, a generative AI (GenAI)-based social narrative system, which supports parents to create personalized, multi-path stories targeting specific behavior of their autistic children, while enabling them to explore behavioral choices and causal consequences together in reading. A two-week deployment study with 16 autistic child-parent dyads showed that parents actively created, adapted, and read stories with their children, with increased confidence in everyday behavioral guidance. Our work contributes real-world-contextualized text+image content creation approaches harnessing GenAI, ensuring user-aligned application in sensitive contexts involving autistic children and their parents.

翻译：社交叙事通过故事帮助自闭症儿童理解并应对社交情境。然而，为确保有效实践，家长通常需投入大量时间与精力定制叙事材料并进行重复指导。我们提出基于生成式人工智能的社交叙事系统 AutiHero，支持家长针对其自闭症儿童的具体行为创建个性化、多路径故事，并能在阅读过程中共同探索行为选择与因果后果。一项为期两周、涉及16组自闭症儿童-家长对的应用研究发现，家长能主动创建、改编并阅读故事，在日常行为引导方面的信心有所提升。本研究贡献了结合真实情境的文本+图像内容创作方法，利用生成式人工智能确保其在涉及自闭症儿童及其家长的敏感场景中实现用户对齐的应用。