Design and Development for Individuals with ASD: Fostering Multidisciplinary Approaches Through Personas

Silva, Samuel; Teixeira, António

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“…In Nabil et al’s words [72], “if studies of smart homes have told us anything, it is that we need to understand people and how they want to live their lives before we can really understand how technology can best be designed to suit them.” In this sense, user-centered design considering tools such as Personas, scenarios [71,73] and user stories [74,75], can be an important asset to support a multidisciplinary user-centered dialogue in smart environments. These, can provide a common language among the different research areas similarly to what we have proposed for multidisciplinary collaboration in designing for children with autism spectrum disorders [76,77]. And, in this context, the characteristics of the AM4I framework will, we argue, further show their mettle, supporting iterative design and development of systems, in short prototyping-evaluation cycles, which can further contribute to refining the requirements and increasing our multidisciplinary insight to advance smart environments.…”

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The AM4I Architecture and Framework for Multimodal Interaction and Its Application to Smart Environments

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Technologies, such as smart sensors, actuators, and other kinds of devices, are often installed in our environments (e.g., our Homes) and available to integrate our daily lives. Despite their installation being motivated by the pursuit of automation and increased efficiency, making these environments usable, acceptable and enjoyable in a sustainable, energy efficient way is not only a matter of automation. Tackling these goals is a complex task demanding the combination of different perspectives including building and urban Architecture, Ubiquitous Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to provide occupants with the means to shape these environments to their needs. Interaction is of paramount relevance in the creation of adequate relations of users with their environments, but it cannot be seen independently from the ubiquitous sensing and computing or the environment’s architecture. In this regard, there are several challenges to HCI, particularly in how to integrate this multidisciplinary effort. Although there are several solutions to address some of these challenges, the complexity and dynamic nature of the smart environments and the diversity of technologies involved still present many challenges, particularly for its development. In general, the development is complex, and it is hard to create a dynamic environment providing versatile and adaptive forms of interaction. To participate in the multidisciplinary effort, the development of interaction must be supported by tools capable of facilitating co-design by multidisciplinary teams. In this article, we address the development of interaction for complex smart environments and propose the AM4I architecture and framework, a novel modular approach to design and develop adaptive multiplatform multilingual multi-device multimodal interactive systems. The potential of the framework is demonstrated by proof-of-concept applications in two different smart environment contexts, non-residential buildings and smart homes.

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“…Personas are typical patient-profiles or user-profiles illustrating the target group of a treatment or product and can be useful in the development of digital interventions to communicate user needs to the development team 29 30. By giving a narrative and name, personas facilitate a more concrete discussion of patient needs, and to what extent the treatment might match those needs 31.…”

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Development, evaluation and implementation of a digital behavioural health treatment for chronic pain: study protocol of the multiphase DAHLIA project

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IntroductionChronic pain affects about 20%–40% of the population and is linked to mental health outcomes and impaired daily functioning. Pharmacological interventions are commonly insufficient for producing relief and recovery of functioning. Behavioural health treatment is key to generate lasting benefits across outcome domains. However, most people with chronic pain cannot easily access evidence-based behavioural interventions. The overall aim of the DAHLIA project is to develop, evaluate and implement a widely accessible digital behavioural health treatment to improve well-being in individuals with chronic pain.Methods and analysisThe project follows the four phases of the mHealth Agile Development and Evaluation Lifecycle: (1) development and pre-implementation surveillance using focus groups, stakeholder interviews and a business model; (2) iterative optimisation studies applying single case experimental design (SCED) method in 4–6 iterations with n=10 patients and their healthcare professionals per iteration; (3) a two-armed clinical randomised controlled trial enhanced with SCED (n=180 patients per arm) and (4) interview-based post-market surveillance. Data analyses include multilevel modelling, cost-utility and indicative analyses.In October 2021, inter-sectorial partners are engaged and funding is secured for four years. The treatment content is compiled and the first treatment prototype is in preparation. Clinical sites in three Swedish regions are informed and recruitment for phase 1 will start in autumn 2021. To facilitate long-term impact and accessibility, the treatment will be integrated into a Swedish health platform (www.1177.se), which is used on a national level as a hub for advice, information, guidance and e-services for health and healthcare.Ethics and disseminationThe study plan has been reviewed and approved by Swedish ethical review authorities. Findings will be actively disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations, social media and outreach activities for the wider public.Trial registration numberNCT05066087.

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“…51 investigadores o ingenieros de sistemas actuarán como entrevistadores. De este modo, la tarea de recolectar conocimiento e ideas de diferentes disciplinas (entre ellas psicología, educación, terapia, procesamiento de señales, interacción humano-computadora e ingeniería de software), requerirá que los diferentes actores puedan comunicar y discutir sus ideas en un lenguaje común, favoreciendo el entendimiento de las cuestiones fundamentales en juego (Silva & Teixeira, 2019).…”

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“…Además, teniendo en cuenta una población destino con discapacidad, existe evidencia de que no es suficiente emplear métodos de co-diseño centrados en el usuario final, las tecnologías utilizadas deben estar respaldadas por la red social primaria del usuario, es necesario utilizar métodos de diseño que consideren y articulen los puntos de vista, motivaciones e intereses de los actores (familia, asistentes, cuidadores, terapeutas, profesores, etc.) que supervisan el uso del sistema propuesto(Silva & Teixeira, 2019). En este sentido, los métodos de diseño participativo proveen algunas técnicas que tendremos en cuenta a la hora de encarar el diseño colaborativo de las herramientas para articular diferentes puntos de vista, proporcionando a cada parte interesada un ámbito donde expresar sus opiniones con confianza.…”

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Actualmente, las discapacidades intelectuales se consideran un fenómeno multidimensional, donde una persona experimenta problemas en el funcionamiento como impedimentos, limitaciones y restricciones en la participación, que surgen de la interacción entre una condición de la salud, factores personales y barreras en el contexto social y físico (Kazou, 2017). Es decir, que la manifestación de discapacidades intelectuales involucra un compromiso dinámico y recíproco entre las características del individuo, las oportunidades y los soportes que se le proporcionan (Buntinx & Schalock, 2010). Nos apoyamos en esta concepción de la discapacidad, para iniciar un proyecto formando un grupo multidisciplinario con profesionales de una escuela, cuyo objetivo es generar oportunidades de participación y desarrollo para personas con discapacidad a través del uso de herramientas lúdico-tecnológicas. Se eligió un enfoque de trabajo donde estas herramientas son creadas a medida de las habilidades y necesidades de las personas con discapacidad y de las instituciones donde desempeñan sus actividades diarias. Durante el trabajo, se estudiaron los desafíos y problemas que el grupo enfrentó a la hora de desarrollar herramientas a medida en conjunto, utilizándolos como base para diseñar una metodología de trabajo incremental que especifica las prácticas, actividades y herramientas necesarias para subsanarlos. Estos desafíos se relacionan con las características personales y ambientales del contexto, las habilidades y necesidades de los usuarios finales, la personalización y la accesibilidad inherentes a herramientas utilizadas por poblaciones heterogéneas de personas con discapacidad, la multidisciplina, la naturaleza científica vs. práctica de las experiencias, entre otros. Se diseñó una metodología que establece las prácticas esenciales de cada etapa del proceso iterativo, creando una guía que permite que el grupo multidisciplinario se enfoque en obtener un producto adaptado a los usuarios e impregnado con las características y costumbres del grupo particular conformado por los estudiantes, profesores, y terapistas de la escuela. Los resultados de la experiencia Proyecto Simón evidencian que la metodología resultó efectiva para guiar el diseño e implementación de un set de herramientas lúdico-tecnológicas que incluye una plataforma de desarrollo, sus videojuegos, una aplicación para ajustar la experiencia a sus usuarios y otra para soportar el análisis y visualización de los datos de desempeño de los alumnos. Finalmente, se desarrolló un estudio observacional del taller lúdico basado en herramientas lúdicas-tecnológicas, interacción natural, una modalidad cooperativa por turnos guiada por el maestro, propició la estimulación y mejora de las habilidades de los estudiantes en los dominios motor, cognitivo y socioemocional. Nowadays, intellectual disabilities are understood as a multidimensional phenomenon, upon which a person experiences a wide range of difficulties in functioning; including impairments and limitations in their participation, arising from the complex interaction between health conditions, personal factors and barriers in the physical and social environment (Kazou, 2017). Thus, recognizing that the manifestation of intellectual disabilities involves the dynamic, reciprocal engagement among intellectual ability, adaptive behavior, health, participation, context, and individualized supports provided to the individual (Buntinx & Schalock, 2010).Considering this conception of disability, we started our project establishing a multidisciplinary group with professionals from a special education school. The main goal of this project is to provide opportunities of participation and development for persons with disabilities using game based tools. Our work approach prioritizes the custom development of these tools to adjust them to the needs and abilities of their users and the institutions where they perform everyday activities.During this work, we studied the challenges and problems the group faced while developing customized tools, using the resulting insights as a foundation to design an incremental work methodology, specifying the practices, activities and tools needed to solve them. These challenges are related to the personal and contextual characteristics of the context, the needs and abilities of the final users, the customization and accessibility expected from tools that would be used by an heterogeneous disability population, the multidisciplinary aspect, the research vs practice nature experience, among others.A methodology was developed to establish the essential practices of every step of the iterative process, creating a guide allowing the multidisciplinary group to focus on obtaining a product adapted to the usersand impregnated with the characteristics and costumes of the particular group conformed by the students, teachers and therapists of the school. Results of the whole experience showed that the methodology was useful to guide the design and development of aset of tools including a framework, its videogames, a tool to adjust the experience to its users and another to support the analysis and visualization of user performance data. Finally, an observational study was developed showing that the ludic workshop combining these tools, natural interaction, and a cooperative turn based modality guided by a teacher, aided the stimulation and development of abilities in the motor, cognitive and socioemotional domains

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Design and Development for Individuals with ASD: Fostering Multidisciplinary Approaches Through Personas

Cited by 12 publications

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The AM4I Architecture and Framework for Multimodal Interaction and Its Application to Smart Environments

The AM4I Architecture and Framework for Multimodal Interaction and Its Application to Smart Environments

Development, evaluation and implementation of a digital behavioural health treatment for chronic pain: study protocol of the multiphase DAHLIA project

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