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

fYear

2007

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

21

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 2007. MMSP 2007. IEEE 9th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Crete

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1274-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.2007.4412808

Filename

4412808