Lessons from participatory design with adolescents on the autism spectrum

Participatory user interface design with adolescent users on the autism spectrum presents a number of unique challenges and opportunities. Through our work developing a system to help autistic adolescents learn to recognize facial expressions, we have learned valuable lessons about software and hard...

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Main Authors: Picard, Rosalind W., Goodwin, Matthew, Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul, Eckhardt, Micah Rye, El Kaliouby, Rana, Madsen, Miriam A.
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/56559
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1462-4573
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-0022
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Summary:Participatory user interface design with adolescent users on the autism spectrum presents a number of unique challenges and opportunities. Through our work developing a system to help autistic adolescents learn to recognize facial expressions, we have learned valuable lessons about software and hardware design issues for this population. These lessons may also be helpful in assimilating iterative user input to customize technology for other populations with special needs.