Designing for children

Sá, Marco de; Carriço, Luís; Faria, João; Sá, Isabel

doi:10.1145/1753846.1754006

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“…To cope with these issues, researchers explored the usage of smartphones as a replacement for paper forms (De Sá et al 2010). By creating digital artefacts tailored to this type of therapy, researchers significantly reduced the bureaucratic hindrances related with these procedures.…”

Section: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Social Competences And Skillmentioning

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Designing for geo-referenced in-situ therapeutic scenarios

Duarte

Carriço

2015

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Cognitive behavioral therapy and social competences and skills training sometimes rely on in-situ activities to improve the patients' condition. As the process evolves, therapists concede some autonomy to patients, allowing them to carry out those activities without the need for the former's presence. The ability to remotely track patient's activities provides an interesting solution to ensure their success, still encouraging their autonomy. This paper presents the design process and evaluation of a remote group monitoring and communication system for these two types of procedures. We use traditional group communication directives and augment them with georeferenced information, empowering therapists with critical data to track their patients live and remotely. We describe the design process of a high-fidelity prototype and discuss the results from an experimental study that assessed the system from a usability and functionality perspectives. Results fueled an interesting discussion regarding how geo-referenced information help users maintaining awareness when multi-tasking.

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Section: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Social Competences And Skillmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing for geo-referenced in-situ therapeutic scenarios

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Carriço

2015

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Proceedings of the 3rd Augmented Human International Conference

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Fear therapy for children

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Carriço

2012

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Mobile devices have shown to be useful tools in supporting various procedures and therapy approaches for different purposes. However, when applied to children, particular care has to be taken, considering both their abilities and their acceptance towards the used approaches. In this paper we present mobile applications, designed specifically for children and young patients, aiming at supporting fear therapy procedures. The software was developed following a user centered design approach and offers users an intuitive and metaphor based interaction paradigm that overcomes the paper-based counterpart's limitations. We describe the design process, the software and the results that we have obtained during an exploratory trial study.

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Designing for children

Cited by 3 publications

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Designing for geo-referenced in-situ therapeutic scenarios

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