Mobile Technology for Students &amp; Adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Vlachou, Jenny A.; Drigas, Athanasios

doi:10.3991/ijim.v11i1.5922

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“…• Social skills: This classifier covers the use of secure virtual environments and the promotion of roleplaying games as a means for exercising certain behavior in a social situation which will allow overcoming the social problems of children with autism [23]. • Math skills: Nowadays the use of educational games adapted for the age of children is a popular practice, although there is no precise and reasoned study related to the actual benefits of it [24]. The classifier "Math skills" covers all the functionalities of the applications which allows the development of logical think-ng and mathematical skills.…”

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An Evaluation of The Mobile Apps for Children with Special Education Needs Based on The Utility Function Metrics

Kraleva

Kralev

2018

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Mobile apps can be used in various environments and at any time. People used them for learning, communications, and entertainment. Because of the ease use of mobile devices interface (like smartphone and tablet), then everyone, including the children with special needs, can have used them. In recent years, there has been an increase in the efforts of educational institutions and of scientists to support children in their daily life. Ongoing developments in communication and information technologies contribute to this process. The main goal of this study is to present the basic functional requirements for the mobile apps for children with special needs. The current state of the scientific research related to the design and development of mobile apps is discussed. This issue became very important in the last years because of an increase in the number of children with special needs on a worldwide scale is observed. And the same time the increase in the use of mobile technologies of them. The proposed model for the evaluation of potential utility provides for the classification of the mobile applications designed for children with special needs about their functionality features. This model is based on our studies of the state-of-art scientific works of many authors. Whit the model for the evaluation of potential utility, the 27 mobile applications for children with special needs, downloaded from the mobile application stores: Apple Store, Google Play and Store Windows Phone Apps, were classified and analyzed. The results showed that despite the variety of mobile applications, those that are suitable for children with special needs are too few. Most of the applications cover only half of the evaluation criteria, which means they have functionalities only for individual needs. Therefore, the proposed utility function metrics of the evaluation can be used as a basis for interface developing for mobile apps, appropriate for children with special needs.

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Section: A Research Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Evaluation of The Mobile Apps for Children with Special Education Needs Based on The Utility Function Metrics

Kraleva

Kralev

2018

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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“…It has been stated in several studies, e.g. [15], [16], [17]. These studies highlight the benefits of the new technologies used in education and training, since the users (children) have access to information when and where they want, and this information can easily be updated.…”

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ChilDiBu – A Mobile Application for Bulgarian Children with Special Educational Needs

Kraleva¹

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Abstract-Designing applications adapted to the capabilities of each user is an important part of modern software engineering. Children with Autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disabilities are a special group of users where standard application design is not a good approach. Some of them have speech disorders, others have disorders of the musculoskeletal system and in their cognitive development. In the literature, these children are referred to as children with special educational needs. Only few researchers are involved in the development of various computer technologies, including mobile applications appropriate for these children. Some specialized mobile applications for these users can be found in the different mobile stores. However, most of these apps are rather expensive or with inappropriate user interfaces. Another disadvantage in all the apps is the lack of support in the Bulgarian language. It makes them unusable for the youngest users with special needs in Bulgaria. A conceptual model based on the investigation of some existing applications, the well-established theoretical practices, and on the opinion of children without disorders is proposed in this paper. An approach to designing and developing the interactive mobile application ChilDiBu for children with special needs, suitable for the Windows Phone mobile operating system, is presented. ChilDiBu is a picture-based app that combines graphic images, texts and audio files which can be used to learn the Bulgarian alphabet, the numbers up to 20, some basic colors and the daily activities that children perform. The application is focused on the development of the fine motor skills, observation and decision-making skills which is completed with a puzzle for arranging the two-digit numbers. At the end of the paper the app interface, the way it is used and its app architecture are shown.

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“…Let's Talk Now mobile app was designed and developed as an early intervention to help the dysarthric children aged 3 to 7 years' old who are facing the problem to communicate and enable them to be understood by others [47][48]. This app focuses on daily usable communication terms such as to call family members, for greetings and expressions, to mention places, to order food and beverages, to mention activities and to ask for help.…”

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User Acceptance of ‘Let’s Talk Now’ Mobile App for Dysarthric Children

Annamalai

Yusoff

Harun

2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<p class="SPIEabstractbodytext">Dysarthria is a neurological disorder that damages of motor speech articulation.Young children who suffered from this disorder have no problem with their cognition, but they have difficulties to speak out their words. They could not have an accurate and smooth communication with their family and friends due to this disorder. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the user acceptance of an interactive speaking tool in the form of a mobile application named 'Let's Talk Now' which was designed with redundant multimedia elements for the use of dysarthric children aged 3 to 7 years old. This mobile appwas designed and developed as an early intervention to help the dysarthric who are facing problem to communicate and enable them to be understood by others. It focuses on daily usable conversation terms for family, greeting and expressions, places, ordering food and beverages, activities and asking for help. This study involved 15 respondents who are related to dysarthria namely therapists, parents, and teacher of dysarthric children. The 'Let's Talk Now' mobile app’s acceptance was evaluated using the USE (Usefulness, Satisfaction and Ease of Use) Questionnaire (Lund, 2001) which was used to measure its user acceptance. The findings described that all of the respondents agreed that the 'Let's Talk Now' mobile app is usable and suitable in helping the communication between dysarthric children and people.</p>

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Mobile Technology for Students & Adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Cited by 74 publications

References 13 publications

An Evaluation of The Mobile Apps for Children with Special Education Needs Based on The Utility Function Metrics

An Evaluation of The Mobile Apps for Children with Special Education Needs Based on The Utility Function Metrics

ChilDiBu – A Mobile Application for Bulgarian Children with Special Educational Needs

User Acceptance of ‘Let’s Talk Now’ Mobile App for Dysarthric Children

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