Developing IDEAS: supporting children with autism within a participatory design team

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Benton, L., Johnson, H., Ashwin, E., Brosnan, M. and Grawemeyer, B., 2012. Developing IDEAS: supporting children with autism within a participatory design team. In: CHI '12 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 2599-2608.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208650

Abstract

IDEAS (Interface Design Experience for the Autistic Spectrum) is a method for involving children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in the technology design process. This paper extends the IDEAS method to enable use with a design team, providing specific added support for communication and collaboration difficulties that may arise. A study to trial this extended method was conducted with two design teams, each involving three children with ASD, in a series of six, weekly design sessions focused on designing a math game. The findings from this study reveal that the children were able to successfully participate in the sessions and collaborate with other children. The findings also highlight the positive experience that involvement in such a process can offer this population.

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