Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
Evaluating a Collaborative iPad Game's Impact on Social Relationships for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
Abstract | ||
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This article describes how collaborative assistive technologies, housed on off-the-shelf, low-cost platforms such as the iPad, can be used to facilitate social relationships in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Through an empirical study of the use of a collaborative iPad game, Zody, we explore how assistive technologies can be used to support social relationships, even without intervention from adults. We discuss how specific design choices can encourage three levels of social relationship: membership, partnership, and friendship. This work contributes to research on both assistive technologies and collaborative gaming through a framework that describes how specific in-game elements can foster social skill development for children with ASD. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2015 | 10.1145/2751564 | ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Collaborative games,iPad,autism,ASD,social skills,cooperation,social | Autism,Social relationship,Friendship,Simulation,Computer science,Social skills,Human–computer interaction,Autism spectrum disorder,General partnership,Empirical research,Applied psychology | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
7 | 1 | 1936-7228 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
10 | 0.57 | 19 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| LouAnne Boyd | 1 | 94 | 6.77 |
| Kathryn E. Ringland | 2 | 63 | 7.01 |
| Oliver L. Haimson | 3 | 177 | 18.01 |
| Helen Fernandez | 4 | 10 | 0.57 |
| Maria Bistarkey | 5 | 10 | 0.57 |
| Gillian Hayes | 6 | 1852 | 155.64 |