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

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Gianluca De Leo,

Gondy LeroyAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1463689.1463715

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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.

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Smartphones to facilitate communication and improve social skills of children with severe autism spectrum disorder: special education teachers as proxies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping
      2. User centered design
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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