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Interaction Design and Autistic Children

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Christopher Frauenberger,

Julia Makhaeva,

Katta SpielAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 743 - 748

https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3081309

Published: 27 June 2017 Publication History

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With this workshop we aim to bring together researchers who explore interactive technologies in the context of autistic children. At a point at which considerable effort has been invested in this area and results are promising, but hardly conclusively convincing, we argue that it is time to critically reflect on our work. We do this by posing three provocative questions: 1) Are we trying to do the right thing? 2) Is it working? and 3) Does it matter? With all three questions we aim to kick-start a debate about the goals and intentions with which research is done in this area, how we define that technology is successful and how we can ensure that our research has real-world impact beyond the people involved directly.

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Mack KMcDonnell EJain DLu Wang LE. Froehlich JFindlater LKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)What Do We Mean by “Accessibility Research”?Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445412(1-18)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445412

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Interaction Design and Autistic Children
1. Human-centered computing

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IDC '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2017

808 pages

ISBN:9781450349215

DOI:10.1145/3078072

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Stanford University, USA
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University of California-Berkeley, USA

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IDC '17: Interaction Design and Children

June 27 - 30, 2017

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Overall Acceptance Rate 172 of 578 submissions, 30%

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Mack KMcDonnell EJain DLu Wang LE. Froehlich JFindlater LKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)What Do We Mean by “Accessibility Research”?Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445412(1-18)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445412

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