A collaborative approach to the design and evaluation of an interactive learning tool for children with special educational needs

Widening participation in technology design: A review of the involvement of children with special educational needs and disabilities

“…Cerebral palsy (Allsop et al, 2009;de Faria Borges et al, 2014;Hernandez et al, 2013;Hornof, 2009;López-Mencía et al, 2010;Rigby et al, 2006) Spina bifida (Rigby et al, 2006) Neuromuscular conditions (Rigby et al, 2006) Amelia/Limb loss (Hussain, 2010) Visual impairments (Sánchez & Flores 2004;McElligott & van Leeuwen 2004) Hearing impairments (Henderson et al, 2005;Iversen et al, 2007;Potter et al, 2011;Slegers et al, 2010)…”

“…These projects defined the design approach they followed in a range of different ways including:  Participatory Design (Benton et al, , 2014Benton & Johnson, 2013;de Faria Borges et al, 2014;Frauenberger et al, 2013Frauenberger et al, , 2010Frauenberger et al, , 2011Frauenberger, Good, Alcorn, & Pain, 2012;Hernandez et al, 2013;Holone & Herstad, 2013;Hussain, 2010;Iversen et al, 2007;Keay-Bright, 2007a, 2007bMadsen et al, 2009;Malinverni et al, 2014;Mazzone et al, 2008;Millen et al, 2010;Parsons & Cobb, 2014;Ruland et al, 2008;van Rijn & Stappers, 2008);  Co-Design (Hornof, 2009;López-Mencía et al, 2010;Tarrin et al, 2006);  Informant Design (Al-Wabil et al, 2010;Brederode et al, 2005);  Experience-centred Design (Durrant et al, 2013);  User-centred Design (Allsop et al, 2009;Culén et al, 2013;Potter et al, 2011;Slegers et al, 2010;Wärnestål et al, 2014);  Client-Centred (Rigby et al, 2006);  Inclusive Design (McElligott & van Leeuwen 2004);  Iterative Design (Henderson et al, 2005;Zarin & Fallman, 2011);  Scenario-based Design (Millen et al, 2011)  Specific PD methods such as Cooperative Inquiry (Foss et al, 2013;…”

“… Educational Technologye.g. creative play and expression (Durrant et al, 2013;Holone & Herstad, 2013;Hourcade et al, 2012;Keay-Bright, 2007a, 2007bLarsen & Hedvall, 2012;McElligott & van Leeuwen, 2004) language/literacy (Al-Wabil et al, 2010;Benton et al, 2014;Iversen et al, 2007;van Rijn, 2012), mathematics (Benton et al, , 2014Benton & Johnson, 2013;Grawemeyer et al, 2012;Sánchez & Flores, 2004), sign language (Henderson et al, 2005;Potter et al, 2011), emotions/social skills (Brederode et al, 2005;Frauenberger et al, 2013Frauenberger et al, , 2010Frauenberger et al, , 2011Frauenberger, Good, Keay-Bright, et al, 2012;Madsen et al, 2009;Malinverni et al, 2014;Mazzone et al, 2008;Millen et al, 2010Millen et al, , 2011Parsons & Cobb, 2014;Piper et al, 2006;Zarin & Fallman, 2011) as well as unspecified educational software tools (Culén et al, 2013;López-Mencía et al, 2010).  Entertainment Technologye.g.…”

“…Thirteen different projects reported beneficial outcomes to the children involved in evaluating early versions of the prototype technology. Again these benefits were reported from a number of sources including:  Researcher observations (Durrant et al, 2013;Hourcade et al, 2012;López-Mencía et al, 2010;Parsons & Cobb, 2014;Potter et al, 2011;Rigby et al, 2006;Sánchez & Flores, 2004;Tarrin et al, 2006);  Teacher/other expert observations/verifications gathered from questionnaires (Keay-Bright, 2007a, 2007b, interviews (Piper et al, 2006), video footage analysis (Keay-Bright, 2007a) and informal evaluations (McElligott & van Leeuwen, 2004);  Self report from children gathered from informal evaluations (Millen et al, 2010;Zarin & Fallman, 2011) and interviews (Hernandez et al, 2013). Some of these benefits occurred partly due to the nature of technology itself, for example Piper et al (2006) report improvements in social skills in the children with autism they involved in the evaluation of their tabletop game for social skills development.…”

Rachel: Design of an emotionally targeted interactive agent for children with autism

“…In [8] the authors performed a similar comparison using data collected from children. ECAs have also been successfully used in educational contexts [9] and in language learning tasks [10].…”