Facilitating Pretend Play in Autistic Children: Results from an Augmented Reality App Evaluation

Mihaela Dragomir; Andrew Manches; Susan Fletcher-Watson; Helen Pain

doi:10.1145/3234695.3241020

Facilitating Pretend Play in Autistic Children: Results from an Augmented Reality App Evaluation

Mihaela Dragomir, Andrew Manches, Susan Fletcher-Watson, Helen Pain

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Autistic children find pretend play difficult. Previous work suggests Augmented Reality (AR) has potential in eliciting pretend play in children with autism. This paper presents the evaluation of an Augmented Reality app to help autistic children engage in solitary pretend play. We followed a user-centred design process, involving various techniques and stakeholders. Results from a pre-post study design suggest the AR system is promising in facilitating quantitative aspects of pretend play in autistic children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Place of Publication	Galway, Ireland
Publisher	ACM
Pages	407-409
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5650-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3241020
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2018
Event	20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility - Galway, Ireland Duration: 22 Oct 2018 → 24 Oct 2018 https://assets18.sigaccess.org/index.html

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Conference	20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Abbreviated title	ASSETS'18
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Galway
Period	22/10/18 → 24/10/18
Internet address	https://assets18.sigaccess.org/index.html

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Dragomir, M, Manches, A , Fletcher-Watson, S & Pain, H 2018, Facilitating Pretend Play in Autistic Children: Results from an Augmented Reality App Evaluation. in Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ACM, Galway, Ireland, pp. 407-409, 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Galway, Ireland, 22/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3241020

Facilitating Pretend Play in Autistic Children: Results from an Augmented Reality App Evaluation. / Dragomir, Mihaela; Manches, Andrew ; Fletcher-Watson, Susan et al.
Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Galway, Ireland: ACM, 2018. p. 407-409.

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