Smartphones to Facilitate Communication and Improve Social Skills of Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder: Special Education Teachers as Proxies

Authors

Gondy Leroy, Claremont Graduate UniversityFollow
Gianluca De Leo, Old Dominion University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Department

Information Systems and Technology (CGU)

Publication Date

6-2008

Disciplines

Databases and Information Systems | Management Information Systems

Abstract

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.

Rights Information

© 2008 ACM

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DOI

10.1145/1463689.1463715

Recommended Citation

Gianluca De Leo and Gondy Leroy. 2008. Smartphones to facilitate communication and improve social skills of children with severe autism spectrum disorder: special education teachers as proxies. In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children (IDC '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 45-48. DOI=10.1145/1463689.1463715 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1463689.1463715