IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum

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

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979841

IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum

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

University of Bath

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

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Abstract

Designing products and services to meet the specific requirements of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can be difficult due to their wide ranging and individual needs. Participatory Design (PD) is a design method that could be used to better meet these needs, by giving this population an opportunity to. directly contribute to software designed for their use. Researchers have begun to involve children with ASD in the design process, but there is not yet a design method specifically adapted to support the potential difficulties this group may experience during PD sessions. This paper presents a new design method, IDEAS, which attempts to fulfill this need. The development of this method is described along with an initial pilot undertaken to determine the feasibility of using this method with an ASD population. The results indicate that the majority of children with ASD were able to produce a successful final design using this method, and have the potential to be involved in PD sessions as part of a design team.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1759-1764
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450302289
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979841
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 7 May 2011 → 12 May 2011 http://www.chi2011.org/

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011
Abbreviated title	CHi 2011
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	7/05/11 → 12/05/11
Internet address	http://www.chi2011.org/

Keywords

Autism
Children
Interface design
Participatory Design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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Benton, L., Johnson, H., Brosnan, M., Ashwin, E., & Grawemeyer, B. (2011). IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum. In CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts (pp. 1759-1764). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979841

IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum. / Benton, Laura; Johnson, Hilary; Brosnan, Mark et al.
CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. ACM, 2011. p. 1759-1764 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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

Benton, L, Johnson, H, Brosnan, M, Ashwin, E & Grawemeyer, B 2011, IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum. in CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, ACM, pp. 1759-1764, 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 7/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979841

Benton L, Johnson H, Brosnan M, Ashwin E, Grawemeyer B. IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum. In CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. ACM. 2011. p. 1759-1764. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/1979742.1979841

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