Reflections from a long-term deployment study to design novel interactive surfaces for children with autism

Cibrian, Franceli L., Ortega, Deysi H., Escobedo, Lizbeth and Tentori, Monica 2015. Reflections from a long-term deployment study to design novel interactive surfaces for children with autism. Presented at: First International Conference, AmIHEALTH, Puerto Varas, Chile, 1-4 Dec 2015. Published in: Bravo, Jose, Hervas, Ramon and Villirreal, Vladimir eds. Ambient Intelligence for Health. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol.9456 Springer, 167–176. 10.1007/978-3-319-26508-7_17

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Designing interactive surfaces for children with autism is not trivial, and even more if intended for long-term use. In this paper, we reflect on the experiences and lessons learned from a 5-months deployment study conducted in a LivingLab where 6 classrooms of children with autism used an interactive surface as a multisensory therapy. We describe a set of design insights emerged from these study, and present how they could be used as a design principle to develop novel alternatives of the deployed interactive surface. First we present the design and development of SpaceHunters, an interactive floor exergame supporting the practicing of eye-foot coordination exercises; and then, we describe BendableSound, a fabric-based interactive surface enabling the improvisation of rhythmical sounds in an open-ended manner. We close discussing directions for future work.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0302-9743
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2022 13:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147148

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