Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities
Augmented Reality (AR) is promising to complement autism approaches, but so far has mainly focused on training socio-emotional abilities for autistic children with mild learning disabilities. To better consider autistic children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs (SLN), stakeholders...
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| description | Augmented Reality (AR) is promising to complement autism approaches, but so far has mainly focused on training socio-emotional abilities for autistic children with mild learning disabilities. To better consider autistic children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs (SLN), stakeholders advise using collaborative AR sensory-based mediation approaches. Magic Bubbles is a multisensory AR environment created based on stakeholders’ interviews, then adapted for a day hospital setting in collaboration with practitioners, and finally validated in terms of acceptability and usability for autistic children with SLN. In this paper, we report on our latest study that explores three main research questions: 1) To what extent can Magic Bubbles secure autistic children with SLN? 2) To what extent can Magic Bubbles prompt the dyadic relationship between an autistic child with SLN and a practitioner? 3) What is the overall quality of experience for autistic children with SLN when using Magic Bubbles? To answer these questions, seven autistic children with SLN participated in at least six weekly sessions over three months in a day hospital setting. Data collection and analysis used qualitative and quantitative methods, mainly drawing upon grounded theory to evaluate their experiences. Findings validate the three research questions, offer a detailed account of children’s experiences with AR, and outline future directions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-01eb092380734b659bfb88e904cc3e972023-06-28T15:49:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Virtual Reality2673-41922023-06-01410.3389/frvir.2023.11060611106061Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilitiesValentin Bauer0Tifanie Bouchara1Olivier Duris2Charlotte Labossière3Marie-Noëlle Clément4Patrick Bourdot5Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, VENISE Team, Orsay, FranceUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, VENISE Team, Orsay, FranceAssociation CEREP-PHYMENTIN, Day Hospital André Boulloche, Paris, FranceAssociation CEREP-PHYMENTIN, Day Hospital André Boulloche, Paris, FranceAssociation CEREP-PHYMENTIN, Day Hospital André Boulloche, Paris, FranceUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, VENISE Team, Orsay, FranceAugmented Reality (AR) is promising to complement autism approaches, but so far has mainly focused on training socio-emotional abilities for autistic children with mild learning disabilities. To better consider autistic children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs (SLN), stakeholders advise using collaborative AR sensory-based mediation approaches. Magic Bubbles is a multisensory AR environment created based on stakeholders’ interviews, then adapted for a day hospital setting in collaboration with practitioners, and finally validated in terms of acceptability and usability for autistic children with SLN. In this paper, we report on our latest study that explores three main research questions: 1) To what extent can Magic Bubbles secure autistic children with SLN? 2) To what extent can Magic Bubbles prompt the dyadic relationship between an autistic child with SLN and a practitioner? 3) What is the overall quality of experience for autistic children with SLN when using Magic Bubbles? To answer these questions, seven autistic children with SLN participated in at least six weekly sessions over three months in a day hospital setting. Data collection and analysis used qualitative and quantitative methods, mainly drawing upon grounded theory to evaluate their experiences. Findings validate the three research questions, offer a detailed account of children’s experiences with AR, and outline future directions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2023.1106061/fullautismaugmented realitymultisensorymediationsocial interactionchildren |
| spellingShingle | Valentin Bauer Tifanie Bouchara Olivier Duris Charlotte Labossière Marie-Noëlle Clément Patrick Bourdot Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities Frontiers in Virtual Reality autism augmented reality multisensory mediation social interaction children |
| title | Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities |
| title_full | Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities |
| title_fullStr | Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities |
| title_short | Head-mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities |
| title_sort | head mounted augmented reality to support reassurance and social interaction for autistic children with severe learning disabilities |
| topic | autism augmented reality multisensory mediation social interaction children |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2023.1106061/full |
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