A context-sensitive device to help people with autism cope with anxiety
Mohammedali, Marziya, Adams, Brett, Phung, Dinh and Venkatesh, Svetha 2011, A context-sensitive device to help people with autism cope with anxiety, in CHI EA 2011 : Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011, ACM, New York, N. Y., pp. 1201-1206.
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A context-sensitive device to help people with autism cope with anxiety
We describe a smartphone application that helps people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) cope with anxiety attacks. Our prototype provides a one-touch interface for indicating a panic level. The device's response-to instruct, soothe, and/or contact carers-is sensitive to the user's context, consisting of time, location, ambient noise, and nearby friends. Formative evaluation unearths a critical challenge to building assistive technologies for ASD sufferers: can regimented interfaces foster flexible behaviour? Our observations suggest that a delicate balance of design goals is required for a viable assistive technology.
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9781450302289
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eng
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080199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified
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970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences
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