Abstract
Previous research has shown that children with autism face severe social collaboration challenges such as having issues with turn-taking, which is essential when developing social skills. However, few digital interventions have provided visual support for the development of turn-taking behaviour. To visually manifest the process of turn-taking, this research transformed a pong game into a two-player tablet game, i.e., StarRescue. In this paper, we introduce StarRescue's game design decisions and preliminary findings gathered from semi-structured interviews with teachers and parents of pre-school children with high-functioning autism. The results demonstrated that StarRescue has the potential to help children with autism improve their social behaviors. Furthermore, this research shed light on future tablet game design to enhance turn-based collaboration for children with autism.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CHI PLAY 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 246-252 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781450392112 |
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| Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
| Event | 9th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2022) - Maritim Hotel & Congress Centrum, Bremen, Germany Duration: 2 Nov 2022 → 5 Nov 2022 http://chiplay.acm.org/2022 |
Publication series
| Name | CHI PLAY - Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play |
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Conference
| Conference | 9th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2022) |
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| Place | Germany |
| City | Bremen |
| Period | 2/11/22 → 5/11/22 |
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Research Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder
- high-functioning children
- serious game design
- social collaboration