Paper Info
Title
Design Patterns of Technology-based Therapeutic Activities for Children with Language Impairments: A Psycholinguistic-Driven Approach
Abstract
BSTRACT In the last years, researchers and therapists have pinpointed a number of critical aspects in current speech-language interventions. Several studies have explored the use of technology to overcome these barriers and to support speech-therapy in children with language impairments (e.g. DLD and ASD). In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for designing linguistic activities (for assessment and training), based on advances in psycholinguistics. Moving from this theoretical framework, we identified a development process - from the UX design to coding of activities – which is based on a novel set of Design Patterns at multiple layers of abstraction. We then put this framework into practice by implementing these patterns into two technological solutions – tablet and robots – and performing an empirical study to evaluate their benefits. Our results, although still preliminary since they assessed only a tablet experimental condition, are promising for extending the identified Design Patterns to other technological solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411763.3451775
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
platform-agnostic, speech-language therapy, children with DLD and ASD, adoptability, multi-modality, multi-channel, social assistive robots
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Micol Spitale127.14
Silvia Silleresi201.01
Giulia Leonardi332.09
Fabrizio Arosio400.34
Beatrice Giustolisi500.68
Maria Teresa Guasti600.34
Franca Garzotto71245203.98