Title :
Enhancing Social Communication in High-Functioning Children with Autism through a Co-Located Interface
Author :
Bauminger, N. ; Goren-Bar, D. ; Gal, E. ; Weiss, Patrice L. ; Kupersmitt, J. ; Pianesi, Fabio ; Stock, O. ; Zancanaro, Massimo
Author_Institution :
Bar Ilan Univ., Ramat Gan
Abstract :
In this paper we describe a pilot study for an intervention aimed at enhancing social skills in high functioning children with autism. We found initial evidences that the use of a social interaction and may lessen the repetitive behaviors typical of autism. These positive effects also appear to be transferred to other tasks following the intervention. We hypothesize that the effect is due to some unique characteristics of the interfaces used, in particular enforcing some tasks to be done together through the use of multiple-user GUI actions.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; graphical user interfaces; handicapped aids; paediatrics; autism; colocated interface; high-functioning children; multiple-user GUI actions; social communication; social skills; Autism; Collaboration; Computer aided instruction; Computer displays; Graphical user interfaces; Impedance; Virtual environment; Multiple-user GUI; autism; computer assisted instruction; social interaction;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 2007. MMSP 2007. IEEE 9th Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Crete
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1274-7
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.2007.4412808
