Developing IDEAS: Supporting children with Autism within a participatory design team

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2599-2608

  Benton, Laura ^a   Johnson, Hilary ^a   Ashwin, Emma ^b   Brosnan, Mark ^b   Grawemeyer, Beate ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Children; Educational games; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILDREN; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; DESIGN TEAM; EDUCATIONAL GAME; INTERFACE DESIGNS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY DESIGN PROCESS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

DISEASES;

EID: 84862095006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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