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Supporting the design contributions of children with autism spectrum conditions

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Christopher Frauenberger,

Helen PainAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 134 - 143

https://doi.org/10.1145/2307096.2307112

Published: 12 June 2012 Publication History

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In this paper we describe the development of a tool to support the contributions of children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) in a design critique activity. The work is part of the ECHOES project in which we have included children with ASC in a participatory design process to create a technologically enhanced learning environment. We first discuss the general difficulties of involving children with ASC in participatory design work, particularly a socially demanding activity such as design critique. Based on theory from autism research and the results from our own previous design work, we then lay out requirements for a tool to allow children with ASC to become meaningfully involved in a design critique of the ECHOES environment. Subsequently, we describe a prototype of an annotation tool based on these requirements, a pilot study, and feedback elicited from special education teachers. We then report on a study in which seven children with ASC were involved in critiquing a prototype of the ECHOES system using the annotator. In our analysis of the children's annotator use, we found that it served the intended purposes as a visual support, but also that it was appropriated for other means, such as emotional self-regulation. We discuss examples of these different uses and close by asking how these findings could be applied in other contexts where tools are required to facilitate a discourse in design, rather than directly capture its output.

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Supporting the design contributions of children with autism spectrum conditions
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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