The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study
© 2020 Owner/Author. Current augmentative communication technology has had limited success conveying the needs of some individuals with minimally verbal autism spectrum disorder (mvASD). Primary caregivers report being able to better understand these individuals' non-traditional utterances than...
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| author | Johnson, Kristina T Narain, Jaya Ferguson, Craig Picard, Rosalind Maes, Pattie |
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| description | © 2020 Owner/Author. Current augmentative communication technology has had limited success conveying the needs of some individuals with minimally verbal autism spectrum disorder (mvASD). Primary caregivers report being able to better understand these individuals' non-traditional utterances than those less familiar with the individual such as teachers and community members. We present an eight-month multi-phase case study for a translational platform, ECHOS, that uses primary caregivers' unique knowledge to enhance communicative and affective exchanges between mvASD individuals and the broader community. Through iterative development and participatory design, we discovered that physiological sensors were impractical for long-term use, on-body audio was content rich and easily accessible, and a custom in-the-moment labeling app was transformative in obtaining accurate labels from caregivers for machine learning advancements. This paper presents the design methodology, results, and reflections from our case study and provides insights into development with and for the special needs community. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1370902021-11-03T03:40:23Z The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study Johnson, Kristina T Narain, Jaya Ferguson, Craig Picard, Rosalind Maes, Pattie © 2020 Owner/Author. Current augmentative communication technology has had limited success conveying the needs of some individuals with minimally verbal autism spectrum disorder (mvASD). Primary caregivers report being able to better understand these individuals' non-traditional utterances than those less familiar with the individual such as teachers and community members. We present an eight-month multi-phase case study for a translational platform, ECHOS, that uses primary caregivers' unique knowledge to enhance communicative and affective exchanges between mvASD individuals and the broader community. Through iterative development and participatory design, we discovered that physiological sensors were impractical for long-term use, on-body audio was content rich and easily accessible, and a custom in-the-moment labeling app was transformative in obtaining accurate labels from caregivers for machine learning advancements. This paper presents the design methodology, results, and reflections from our case study and provides insights into development with and for the special needs community. 2021-11-02T14:23:04Z 2021-11-02T14:23:04Z 2020 2021-06-30T17:38:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137090 Johnson, Kristina T, Narain, Jaya, Ferguson, Craig, Picard, Rosalind and Maes, Pattie. 2020. "The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study." Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. en 10.1145/3334480.3375206 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf ACM MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Johnson, Kristina T Narain, Jaya Ferguson, Craig Picard, Rosalind Maes, Pattie The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study |
| title | The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study |
| title_full | The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study |
| title_fullStr | The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study |
| title_short | The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study |
| title_sort | echos platform to enhance communication for nonverbal children with autism a case study |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137090 |
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