Smartphones to facilitate communication and improve social skills of children with severe autism spectrum disorder: Special education teachers as proxies

Gianluca De Leo, Gondy Leroy

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Abstract

We present an overview of the approach we used and the challenges we encountered while designing software for smartphones to facilitate communication and improve social skills of children with severe autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We employed participatory design, using special education teachers of children with ASD as proxies for our target population.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008
Pages45-48
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Jun 11 2008Jun 13 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008

Other

Other7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period6/11/086/13/08

Keywords

  • Assisted cognition
  • Autism
  • Design with proxies
  • Health informatics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Education

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