Designing an educational game for and with teenagers with High functioning Autism

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 1, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-20

  Bossavit, Benoît ^a   Parsons, Sarah ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Educational game; Natural user interface; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; STUDENTS; TEACHING; USER INTERFACES;

AUTISM; DESIGN TEAM; EDUCATIONAL GAME; NATURAL USER INTERFACES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; YOUNG PEOPLES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 85014681261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2940299.2940313     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (51)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author
2. Annetta, L., Mangrum, J., Holmes, S., Collazo, K., & Cheng, M.-T. (2009). Bridging reality to virtual reality: Investigating gender effect and student engagement on learning through video game play in an elementary school classroom. International Journal of Science Education, 31(8), pp. 1091-1113
3. Backlund P., Hendrix M. (2013). Educational games - Are they worth the effort? A literature survey of the effectiveness of serious games. In Proc. of Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), pp. 1-8
4. Baio J. (2014) Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years - Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2010 Surveillance Summaries. March 28, 2014/63(SS02);1-21. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6302a1.htm ?s-cid=ss6302a1-w
5. Baird G., Simonoff E., Pickles A., Chandler S., Loucas T., Meldrum D., Charman T. (2006). Prevalence of disorders of the autism spectrum in a population cohort of children in South Thames: the Special Needs and Autism Project (SNAP). The Lancet, 368(9531), pp. 210-215
6. Bartoli L., Corradi C., Garzotto F., Valoriani M. (2013). Exploring Motion-based Touchless Games for Autistic Children's Learning. In Proc. of IDC'13, pp.102-111
7. Benton L., Johnson H., Ashwin E., Brosnan M., Grawemeyer B. (2012). Developing IDEAS: Supporting children with autism within a participatory design team. In Proc. of CHI'12, pp. 2599-2608
8. Benton L., Johnson H. (2014). Structured approaches to participatory design for children: can targeting the needs of children with autism provide benefits for a broader child population? Journal of Instructional Science, 42, pp. 47-65
9. Benton, L. & Johnson, H. (2015). Widening participation in technology design: a review of the involvement of children with special educational needs and disabilities. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 3-4, 23-40
10. Bernardini S., Porayska-Pomsta K., Smith T.J. (2014). ECHOES: An intelligent serious game for fostering social communication in children with autism. Journal of Information Sciences, 264, pp. 41-60.
11. Bianchi-Berthouze N., Kim W., Patel D. (2007). Does body movement engage you more in digital game play? And Why? Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, pp. 102-113. Springer
12. Bossavit B., Marzo A., Ardaiz O. and Pina A. (2014). Hierarchical Menu Selection with a Body-Centered Remote Interface. Journal of Interacting with Computers, 26(5), pp. 389-402
13. Bossavit B., Pina, A. (2014). Designing educational tools, based on body interaction, for children with special needs who present different motor skills. In Proc. of iTAG'14, pp. 63-70.
14. Bratteteig T., Wagner I. (2012). Disentangling power and decision-making in participatory design. Participatory Design Conference
15. Clarke, L., & Abbott, L. (2015). Young pupils', their teacher's and classroom assistants' experiences of iPads in a Northern Ireland school: "Four and five years old, who would have thought they could do that?" British Journal of Educational Technology. doi:10.1111/bjet.12266
16. Davis M., Dautenhahn K., Powell S., Nehaniv C. (2010). Guidelines for researchers and practitioners designing software and software trials for children with autism. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(1), 38-48
17. De Freitas, S. (2006). Using games and simulations for supporting learning. Learning, Media, and Technology, 31(4), pp. 343-358
18. Druin A. (2002). The role of children in the design of new technology. Behaviour and IT, 21(1), pp. 1-25
19. Durkin K., Boyle J., Hunter S., & Conti-Ramsden G. (2013). Video games for children and adolescents with special educational needs. Journal of Psychology, 221(2), 79-89
20. Frauenberger C., Good J., Keay-Bright W., Pain H. (2012). Interpreting input from children: a designerly approach. In Proc. of CHI '12, pp. 2377-2386
21. Frauenberger C., Good J., Alcorn A., Pain H. (2013). Conversing through and about technologies: Design critique as an opportunity to engage children with autism and broaden research(er) perspectives. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 1(2), 38-49
22. Frauenberger C., Good J., Fitzpatrick G., Iversen O.S. (2015) In pursuit of rigour and accountability in participatory design, International journal of Human.-Computer. Studies. 74, pp. 93-106
23. Guha M.L., Druin A., Fails J.A. (2013). Cooperative Inquiry revisited: Reflections of the past and guidelines for the future of intergenerational co-design. Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 1(1), pp. 14-23.
24. Hansen, L.K., Dalsgaard, P. (2015). Note to Self: Stop Calling Interfaces "Natural". Aarhus Series on Human Centered Computing, 1(1), p. 4
25. Hsu H.M.J. (2011). The Potential of Kinect as Interactive Educational Technology. In Proc. of Education and Management Technology, pp. 334-338
26. Kapp, K. M. (2012). The gamification of learning and instruction: Game-based methods and strategies for training and education. San Francisco, CA: Pfeifer.
27. Knight V., McKissick B.R., Saunders A. (2013). A review of technology-based interventions to teach academic skills to students with autism spectrum disorder. Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(11), pp. 2628-2648
28. Kynigos C., Smyrnaiou Z., Roussou M. (2010). Exploring rules and underlying concepts while engaged with collaborative full-body games. In Proc. of IDC'10, pp. 222-225
29. Latham S.O., Stockman I.J. (2014). Effect of Augmented Sensorimotor Input on Learning Verbal and Nonverbal Tasks Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 44(6), 1288-1302
30. Lavelle T. A., Weinstein M. C., Newhouse J. P., Munir K., Kuhlthau K. A., Prosser L. A. (2014). Economic burden of childhood autism spectrum disorders. Pediatrics, 133(3), 520-529
31. Lee W.J., Huang C.W., Wu C.J., Huang S.T., Chen G.D. (2012). The Effects of Using Embodied Interactions to Improve Learning Performance. In Proc. of ICALT'12, pp. 557-559
32. Millen L., Cobb S., Patel H. (2011). Participatory design approach with children with autism. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 10(4), 289-294
33. Mitchell P., Parsons S., Leonard A. (2007). Using virtual environments for teaching social understanding to 6 adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(3), pp. 589-600
34. Molins-Ruano P., Sevilla C., Santini S., Haya P.A., Rodríguez P., Sacha G.M. (2014). Designing videogames to improve students' motivation. Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, 31, pp. 571-579
35. Montes G., Halterman J. S. (2008). Association of childhood autism spectrum disorders and loss of family income. Pediatrics, 121(4), e821-e826
36. Muller M.J. (2003). chapter Participatory Design: The third Space in HCI. The Human-Computer Interaction Hand-book, pp. 1051-1068. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London, UK
37. Neale H., Cobb S., Kerr S. (2003). An inclusive design toolbox for development of educational Virtual Environments. Presented at: Include2003, Royal College of Art, London, 25-28 March 2003
38. Parsons S., Charman T., Faulkner R., Ragan J., Wallace S., Wittemeyer K. (2013). Commentary - bridging the research and practice gap in autism: The importance of creating research partnerships with schools. Journal of Autism, 17(3), pp.268-280.
39. Parsons S., Cobb S. (2014). Reflections on the role of the 'users': challenges in a multi-disciplinary context of learnercentred design for children on the autism spectrum. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 37(4), 421-441.
40. Parsons, S. (in press). Learning to work together: designing a multi-user virtual reality game for social collaboration and perspective-taking for children with autism. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
41. Pennington, R. C. (2010). Computer-assisted instruction for teaching academic skills to students with autism spectrum disorders: A review of literature. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 25(4), pp. 239-248
42. th July 2015. http://digitalbubbles.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2015/09/DigitalBubbleBathfinal.compressed.pdf
43. Ringland K.E., Zalapa R., Neal M., Escobedo L., Tentori M., Hayes G.R. (2014). SensoryPaint: A Multimodal Sensory Intervention for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. In proc. Of UbiComp'14, pp. 873-884.
44. Ruland C.M., Starren J., Vatne T.M. (2008). Participatory design with children in the development of a support system for patient-centred care in pediatric oncology, Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 41(4), pp. 624-635
45. Saiano M., Pellegrino L., Casadio M., Summa S., Garbarino E., Rossi V., Dall'Agata D., Sanguineti V. (2015). Natural interfaces and virtual environments for the acquisition of street crossing and path following skills in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: a feasibility study. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 12
46. Sanders, E.; Brandt E. & Binder T. (2010). A framework for organizing the tools and techniques of participatory design. Participatory design conference
47. Serret S., Hun S., Lakimova G., Lozada J., Anastassova M., Santos A., Vesperini S., Askenazy F. (2014). Facing the challenge of teaching emotions to individuals with low-and high-functioning autism using a new Serious game: a pilot study. Journal of Molecular Autism, 5:37
48. Sinclair, R. (2004). Participation in practice: Making it meaningful, effective and sustainable. Children & society, 18(2), 106-118.
49. Wass S.V., Porayska-Pomsta K. (2014) The uses of cognitive training technologies in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders Autism, 18(8), 851-871
50. Whyte E.M., Smyth J.M., Scherf K.S. (2014). Designing Serious Game Interventions for Individuals with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
51. Wrzesien M., Raya M.A. (2010) Learning in serious virtual worlds: evaluation of learning effectiveness and appeal to students in the E-Junior project. Computers & Education 55, pp. 178-187