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

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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
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2599-2608
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450310154
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208650
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	CHI'12: The 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Austin, Texas, USA United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012

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Conference	CHI'12: The 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	USA United States
City	Austin, Texas
Period	5/05/12 → 10/05/12

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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. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 2599-2608.

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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. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 2599-2608, CHI'12: The 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Austin, Texas, USA United States, 5/05/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208650

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