Developing IDEAS: Supporting children with Autism within a participatory design team

Laura Benton; Hilary Johnson; Emma Ashwin; Mark Brosnan; Beate Grawemeyer

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208650

Developing IDEAS: Supporting children with Autism within a participatory design team

Laura Benton, Hilary Johnson, Emma Ashwin, Mark Brosnan, Beate Grawemeyer

University of Bath

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	2599-2608
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450310154
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208650
Publication status	Published - 24 May 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Austin, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 Conference number: 30

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	5/05/12 → 10/05/12

Keywords

Autism
Children
Educational games
Participatory design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Benton, L., Johnson, H., Ashwin, E., Brosnan, M., & 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 (pp. 2599-2608). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208650

Developing IDEAS: Supporting children with Autism within a participatory design team. / Benton, Laura; Johnson, Hilary; Ashwin, Emma et al.
CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2012. p. 2599-2608 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Benton, L, Johnson, H, Ashwin, E, Brosnan, M & 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. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, ACM, pp. 2599-2608, 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, Texas, United States, 5/05/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208650

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