ICT-Enabled Emotional Learning for Special Needs Education

Technology-Facilitated Diagnosis and Treatment of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Engineering Perspective

“…The visual content can be displayed on a laptop screen, a computer monitor, a TV screen, or a touch screen from a mobile device. An advantage of using a mobile device to deliver a game/program to a participant is the convenience [13][14][15][16][17]. A participant could play the game or engage in a program anytime he/she wants and virtually in any posture.…”

“…Virtually all mobile devices and some newer computers (especially laptop computers) are equipped with touch screens, which enable users to make their choices directly on the screen instead of via a keyboard and mouse [18]. Some of the games designed to run on mobile devices [14] such as iPad, were adapted from traditional assistive tools used for ASD training, such as the cognitive affective training Kit (http://www.cat-kit.com/). Some serious games involve avatars or a combination of avatars and pictures/videos of real people for various purposes such as the understanding emotions as well as recognition of different emotions via facial expression and body gestures [19].…”

“…This is the case for virtually all serious games. For example, Chua et al [14] reported the development of an iPad-based game for children with ASD to learn emotion recognition. At the highest level, there are three worlds.…”

“…All graphical/sound elements must be included for the game goal because children with ASD maybe subject to sensor overload. Even the use of color may play an important role for improved usability for children with ASD [14].…”

“…For mobile games [14], a participant must provide the correct answer to each question before the participant can complete the current level, and only after completing the current level, can the participant continue on to the next level. Such games do not consider how many times a participant has failed a level.…”