Designing motion-based activities to engage students with autism in classroom settings

Proceedings of IDC 2015: The 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 69-78

  Bhattacharya, Arpita ^a   Gelsomini, Mirko ^b   Pérez Fuster, Patricia ^c   Abowd, Gregory D ^a   Rozga, Agata ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autism; Motion based games; Motor skills; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961889767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2771839.2771847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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