Involving Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affected people in design

Abstract

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Estimating Designers’ Performance considering Personal Characteristics and External Factors Together

“…is real context considers shape-based design activities and the VR, AR, and PR representations. Shape-based design activities develop products by analyzing specific shapes and defining product behaviors and functions consequently [42]. ese design activities are becoming more and more important due to the role of User eXperience in design.…”

“…ere are more than one shape in order to lower the bias due to specific shape characteristics. Shape definition occurs by obeying to precise rules [42]. Table 3 summarizes the characteristics of the two shapes selected in answering to those rules.…”

Influence of Personality on Shape-Based Design Activities

“…Shape-based design activities develop products by analysing specific shapes and defining product functions and behaviours consequently [6,11]. One of the main goals is to arouse specific emotions in the people who will interact with those products.…”

“…This research uses more than one shape in order to minimize the bias due to specific shape characteristics. Three rules, as described in [11], lead the definition of these shapes. The first rule requires the shape consisting of a combination of simpler, well-known shapes; the second rule claims that the shape must involve elements to catch the attention and suggest as many F/B pairs as possible; at the same time, the number of these elements must be limited to avoid bias; finally, the third rule imposes the shape size as the actual one for the same reason.…”

“…Nevertheless, an exhaustive analysis of the influence of personality on design activities involving different representations is missing. In trying to fill this gap, the research described in this paper explores this influence on specific design activities, the shape-based ones (i.e., analysis of specific shapes and highlighting of functions suggested by them) [11]. The selection of this type of activities lies on one hand on the fact that they are affordable in terms of costs and resources when performed in user tests; on the other hand, they can be performed even by people showing low/medium design skill and knowledge.…”