Pervasive Computing and Autism: Assisting Caregivers of Children with Special Needs

Kientz, Julie A.; Hayes, Gillian R.; Westeyn, Tracy L.; Starner﻿﻿, Thad; Abowd, Gregory D.

doi:10.1109/mprv.2007.18

Cited by 130 publications

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“…Caregiver collaboration has been an important theme in other work around technologies for autism [e.g., 18,29]. In our work, this theme also arose repeatedly as parents and teachers both described the need to increase awareness across an entire team of caregivers, including private therapists, family members, school staff, and more.…”

Section: Caregiver-caregiver Communicationmentioning

confidence: 71%

Interactive visual supports for children with autism

Hayes

Hirano

Marcu

et al. 2010

Pers Ubiquit Comput

216

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Interventions to support children with autism often include the use of visual supports, which are cognitive tools to enable learning and the production of language. Although visual supports are effective in helping to diminish many of the challenges of autism, they are difficult and time-consuming to create, distribute, and use. In this paper, we present the results of a qualitative study focused on uncovering design guidelines for interactive visual supports that would address the many challenges inherent to current tools and practices. We present three prototype systems that address these design challenges with the use of large group displays, mobile personal devices, and personal recording technologies. We also describe the interventions associated with these prototypes along with the results from two focus group discussions around the interventions. We present further design guidance for visual supports and discuss tensions inherent to their design.

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Section: Caregiver-caregiver Communicationmentioning

confidence: 71%

Interactive visual supports for children with autism

Hayes

Hirano

Marcu

et al. 2010

Pers Ubiquit Comput

216

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“…However, such methods are expensive, tedious and time consuming. Combining such recording with learning and semi-automatic tagging is an on-going research topic [9,13].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smartphone Based Autism Social Alert System

Chuah

DiBlasio

2012

2012 8th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN)

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Abstract-Autism currently affects 1 in every 88 American children impairing their social interactions, communications and daily living. Often, parents, educators, and researchers need to purchase expensive equipment to help autistic children cope with challenges in their daily living. In this paper, we present the Smartphone-Based Autism Social Alert (SASA) system which we design to help such children. The SASA system uses the inexpensive sensors embedded within smartphones to facilitate the study of the autistic children's behaviors by recording and analyzing data collected from such embedded sensors in smartphones carried by autistic children. Our system can automatically detect their stereotypical behaviors such that early interventions can be taken by caregivers or teachers. In addition, the system can correlate environmental sensor data streams, e.g. audio background, with the occurrence of stereotypical behaviors so as to identify potential environmental factors that may trigger such behaviors. We also include some preliminary classification results on the sensor data which we have collected from Androidbased phones using the WEKA J.48 classifier. Our preliminary results show that simple features extracted from accelerometer readings are sufficient to give high accuracy rates when training is performed on a per user per device basis. Our audio classifier which uses 12 MFCC coefficients, average zero crossing rate, and energy can give an accuracy of 78.6% when evaluated using audio traces collected for seven audio categories. Additional extensive experiments will be carried out in the near future at a nearby secondary school for autistic children.

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“…As others have pointed out, documenting and understanding the progress of children with ASD is a significant goal for special educators and parents. Furthermore, our fieldwork indicates that tracking social skills data is particularly challenging [32,33]. Thus, these stakeholders could also use this information to monitor interesting social interactions events, activities or behaviors exhibited by children with ASD in natural and dynamic settings.…”

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Designing for interaction immediacy to enhance social skills of children with autism

Tentori

Hayes

2010

Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder often require therapeutic interventions to support engagement in effective social interactions. In this paper, we present the results of a study conducted in three public schools that use an educational and behavioral intervention for the instruction of social skills in changing situational contexts. The results of this study led to the concept of interaction immediacy to help children maintain appropriate spatial boundaries, reply to conversation initiators, disengage appropriately at the end of an interaction, and identify potential communication partners. We describe design principles for Ubicomp technologies to support interaction immediacy and present an example design. The contribution of this work is twofold. First, we present an understanding of social skills in mobile and dynamic contexts. Second, we introduce the concept of interaction immediacy and show its effectiveness as a guiding principle for the design of Ubicomp applications.

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Pervasive Computing and Autism: Assisting Caregivers of Children with Special Needs

Cited by 130 publications

References 5 publications

Interactive visual supports for children with autism

Interactive visual supports for children with autism

Smartphone Based Autism Social Alert System

Designing for interaction immediacy to enhance social skills of children with autism

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