IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum

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

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979841

IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum

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

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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
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1759-1764
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0268-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979841
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, May 7, 2011 - May 12, 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery

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Conference	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, May 7, 2011 - May 12, 2011
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	1/01/11 → …

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Benton, L., Ashwin, E., Johnson, H., Grawemeyer, B., & Brosnan, M. (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). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979841

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

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Benton, L, Ashwin, E, Johnson, H, Grawemeyer, B & Brosnan, M 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, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 1759-1764, 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, May 7, 2011 - May 12, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1/01/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979841

Benton L, Ashwin E, Johnson H, Grawemeyer B, Brosnan M. 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. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2011. p. 1759-1764. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/1979742.1979841

Benton, Laura ; Ashwin, Emma ; Johnson, Hilary et al. / IDEAS: An interface design experience for the autistic spectrum. CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. pp. 1759-1764 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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