Article

SIDES: a cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development

Authors:

Anne Marie Piper,

Eileen O'Brien,

Meredith Ringel Morris,

Terry WinogradAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180877

Published: 04 November 2006 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a design case study of SIDES: Shared Interfaces to Develop Effective Social Skills. SIDES is a tool designed to help adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome practice effective group work skills using a four-player cooperative computer game that runs on tabletop technology. We present the design process and evaluation of SIDES conducted over six months with a middle school social group therapy class. Our findings indicate that cooperative tabletop computer games are a motivating and supportive tool for facilitating effective group work among our target population and reveal several design lessons to inform the development of similar systems.

References

[1]

Baron-Cohen, S. (2004). Mind Reading: The Interactive Guide to Emotions (CD-ROM). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

[2]

Bauer, S. (1996). Asperger Syndrome. http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/

[3]

Beardon, L., Parsons, S. & Neale, H. (2001). An inter-disciplinary approach to investigating the use of virtual reality environments for people with Asperger Syndrome. Educational and Child Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 2, 53--62.

[4]

Cohen, Jacob. (1960). A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 20, 37--46.

[5]

Dietz, P. and Leigh, D. DiamondTouch: A Multi-User Touch Technology. Proceedings of UIST 2001, 219--226.

Digital Library

[6]

Ehlers, S. and Gillberg, C. The Epidemiology of Asperger's Syndrome: A Total Population Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. 34 (8), November 1993, 1327--1350.

[7]

Fischer, G. and Sullivan, J. 2002. Human-centered public transportation systems for persons with cognitive disabilities -- Challenges and insights for participatory design. In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (June) Malmö University, Sweden, T. Binder, J. Gregory, and I. Wagner Eds. Palo Alto, CA, 194--198.

[8]

Griffiths, M. (1997). Video games and clinical practice: issues, uses and treatments. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 36, 639--41.

[9]

Inkpen, K., Gribble, S., Booth, K.S., and Klawe, M. (1995). Give and Take: Children Collaborating on One Computer. Proceedings of CHI '95: Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM press, pp. 258--259.

Digital Library

[10]

Inkpen, K., McGrenere, J., Booth, K.S., and Klawe, M. (1997). Turn-Taking Protocols for Mouse-Driven Collaborative Environments. Proceedings of Graphics Interface '97, Kelowna, BC, May 1997, pp. 138--145.

Digital Library

[11]

Kerr, Neale and Cobb. (2002). Virtual Environments for Social Skills Training: The importance of scaffolding in practice. ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies.

Digital Library

[12]

Magerkurth, C., Memisoglu, M., and Engelke, T. 2004. Towards the next generation of tabletop gaming experiences. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2004, 73--80.

Digital Library

[13]

Mandryk, R. L., Maranan, D. S., AND Inkpen, K. M. 2002. False prophets: Exploring hybrid board/video games. Proceedings of CHI 2002, 640--641.

Digital Library

[14]

Moffatt, K., McGrenere, J., Purves, B., Klawe, M., The participatory design of a sound and image enhanced daily planner for people with aphasia. Proceedings of CHI 2004, 407--414.

Digital Library

[15]

Morris, M.R., Morris, D., and Winograd, T. Individual Audio Channels with Single Display Groupware: Effects on Communication and Task Strategy. Proceedings of CSCW 2004, 242--251.

Digital Library

[16]

Morris, M.R., Piper, A.M., Cassanego, A., and Winograd, T. Supporting Cooperative Language Learning: Issues in Interface Design for an Interactive Table. Stanford University Technical Report, 2005.

[17]

Morris, M.R., Huang, A., Paepcke, A., and Winograd, T. Cooperative Gestures: Multi-User Gestural Interactions for Co-located Groupware. Proceedings of CHI 2006, 1201--1210.

Digital Library

[18]

Rogers, Y. and Lindley, S. Collaborating Around Large Interactive Displays: Which Way is Best to Meet? Interacting with Computers, 2004.

[19]

Schuler, D., and Namioka, A. (Eds.) (1993). Participatory Design: Principles and Practices. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.

Digital Library

[20]

Scott, S.D., Carpendale, M.S.T., and Inkpen, K. Territoriality in Collaborative Tabletop Workspaces. Proceedings of CSCW 2004, 294--303.

Digital Library

[21]

Shen, C., Vernier, F., Forlines, C., and Ringel, M. DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction. Proceedings of CHI 2004, 167--174.

Digital Library

[22]

Stewart, J., Bederson, B, and Druin, A. Single Display Groupware: A Model for Co-present Collaboration. Proceedings of CHI 1999, 286--293.

Digital Library

[23]

Team Asperger. (2004). Gaining Face: Facial recognition software. http://ccoder.com/GainingFace/

[24]

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[25]

Wu, M., Baecker, R., Richards, B. Participatory design of an orientation aid for amnesics. Proceedings of CHI 2005, 511--520.

Digital Library

Cited By

Kotsi SHandrinou SIatraki GSoulis S(2025)A Review of Artificial Intelligence Interventions for Students with Autism Spectrum DisorderDisabilities10.3390/disabilities50100075:1(7)Online publication date: 16-Jan-2025
https://doi.org/10.3390/disabilities5010007
Macé MAmghar TRichard PMénétrier E(2025)Touch Table Interfaces in Therapeutic Rehabilitation: A Systematic ReviewInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2024.2422677(1-15)Online publication date: 17-Jan-2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2422677
Murphy SBell KCook ECrafter SDavidson RFairhurst CHicks KJoffe VMesser DRobinson-Smith LStrachan LTorgerson DWelch C(2024)Enhancing Pragmatic Language skills for Young children with Social communication difficulties (E-PLAYS-2) trial: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial evaluating a computerised intervention to promote communicative development and collaborative skills in young childrenBMC Psychology10.1186/s40359-024-01749-y12:1Online publication date: 13-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01749-y
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

SIDES: a cooperative tabletop computer game for social skills development
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

Recommendations

Educational Activity Finder for Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder through a Semantic Search System
COMPSAC '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

Children with pervasive developmental disorders have special needs so they should be supported with special education programs. These programs are planned according to the type and degree of the disorder, age, characteristics, and needs of the children. ...
Caregiving intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders using an animal robot
HRI '11: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction

In this paper, we explore the possibility of using animal robot for teaching social behaviors, especially caregiving behavior to children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD).
Designing Stories to Inspire Preschoolers’ Creative, Collaborative Roleplay
GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Young children's interactions with media influence their social play, which impacts their development. Seven years ago, at the start of a project developing a system to support preschool children's creative, collaborative roleplay, we identified a need ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work

November 2006

548 pages

ISBN:1595932496

DOI:10.1145/1180875

General Chairs:
Pamela Hinds
Stanford University, USA
,
David Martin
SMART Technologies Inc., Canada

Copyright © 2006 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part 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 components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 04 November 2006

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

CSCW06

Sponsor:

CSCW06: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

November 4 - 8, 2006

Alberta, Banff, Canada

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 2,235 of 8,521 submissions, 26%

Upcoming Conference

CSCW '25

Sponsor:
sigchi

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 18 - 22, 2025

Bergen , Norway

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

250
Total Citations
View Citations
3,580
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)51
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)8

Reflects downloads up to 20 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Kotsi SHandrinou SIatraki GSoulis S(2025)A Review of Artificial Intelligence Interventions for Students with Autism Spectrum DisorderDisabilities10.3390/disabilities50100075:1(7)Online publication date: 16-Jan-2025
https://doi.org/10.3390/disabilities5010007
Macé MAmghar TRichard PMénétrier E(2025)Touch Table Interfaces in Therapeutic Rehabilitation: A Systematic ReviewInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2024.2422677(1-15)Online publication date: 17-Jan-2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2422677
Murphy SBell KCook ECrafter SDavidson RFairhurst CHicks KJoffe VMesser DRobinson-Smith LStrachan LTorgerson DWelch C(2024)Enhancing Pragmatic Language skills for Young children with Social communication difficulties (E-PLAYS-2) trial: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial evaluating a computerised intervention to promote communicative development and collaborative skills in young childrenBMC Psychology10.1186/s40359-024-01749-y12:1Online publication date: 13-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01749-y
Pontual Falcão TMachado KPinto Neto ZMiranda ACavalcanti ARodrigues PPereira CNascimento A(2024)Should I use my imagination?' An attempt at co-designing a game editor within an app for alternative communication with children with autismProceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3702038.3702039(1-12)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3702038.3702039
Sobel KDas MBehbakht SKientz J(2024)Incloodle-Classroom: Technology for Inclusive Joint Media Engagement in a Neurodiverse Kindergarten ClassroomACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/367450631:3(1-45)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3674506
Piedade PNeto IPires APrada RNicolau H(2024)Inclusion as a Process: Co-Designing an Inclusive Robotic Game with Neurodiverse ClassroomsProceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3663548.3675664(1-15)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663548.3675664
Liu TQuek FGomez G(2024)Engaging Children in Storytelling Through Tabletop Play: Exploring Construction of Story Ideas through Enactive Actions and VocalizationsProceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference10.1145/3628516.3655751(371-378)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628516.3655751
Bei RLiu YWang YHuang YLi MZhao YTong X(2024)StarRescue: the Design and Evaluation of A Turn-Taking Collaborative Game for Facilitating Autistic Children's Social SkillsProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642829(1-19)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642829
Morris BHavlucu HOldfield AMetatla O(2024)Understanding Neurodiverse Social Play Between Autistic and Non-Autistic ChildrenProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642809(1-16)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642809
Tseng YLiu HChiu YLee CTsai WLin YChien Y(2024)Electroencephalography Connectivity Assesses Cognitive Disorders of Autistic Children During Game-Based Social InteractionIEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems10.1109/TCDS.2023.3297609(1-1)Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2023.3297609
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents