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The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties

Approximately 50% of all individuals with Autism have difficulties in developing functional language owing to communication deterioration. Mobile devices with installed educational games help these individuals feel more comfortable and relaxed doing such activities. Although numerous mobile applicat...

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Main Authors: Hussain, Azham, Abdullah, Adil, Husni, Husniza
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2016
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/19515/
http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960887
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spelling my.uum.repo.195152016-11-15T03:50:44Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/19515/ The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties Hussain, Azham Abdullah, Adil Husni, Husniza QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Approximately 50% of all individuals with Autism have difficulties in developing functional language owing to communication deterioration. Mobile devices with installed educational games help these individuals feel more comfortable and relaxed doing such activities. Although numerous mobile applications are available for individuals with Autism, they are difficult to use; particularly in terms of user-interface design. From the analysis of existing apps for autistic children, an app design principles are proposed based on interaction design (IxD), that would fulfil the users’ requirements in a better manner. Five applications were involved in this analysis. The analysis identified fifteen suggestions for the design principles. These recommendations are offered by this paper towards designing and developing a prototype app for autistic children. This paper introduces an edutainment-system design principle formulated to help develop the communication skills of children with Autism-spectrum disorders. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Hussain, Azham and Abdullah, Adil and Husni, Husniza (2016) The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties. In: 2016 International Conference on Applied Science and Technology (ICAST 2016), 11–13 April 2016, Kedah, Malaysia. http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960887 doi:10.1063/1.4960887
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Hussain, Azham
Abdullah, Adil
Husni, Husniza
The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
description Approximately 50% of all individuals with Autism have difficulties in developing functional language owing to communication deterioration. Mobile devices with installed educational games help these individuals feel more comfortable and relaxed doing such activities. Although numerous mobile applications are available for individuals with Autism, they are difficult to use; particularly in terms of user-interface design. From the analysis of existing apps for autistic children, an app design principles are proposed based on interaction design (IxD), that would fulfil the users’ requirements in a better manner. Five applications were involved in this analysis. The analysis identified fifteen suggestions for the design principles. These recommendations are offered by this paper towards designing and developing a prototype app for autistic children. This paper introduces an edutainment-system design principle formulated to help develop the communication skills of children with Autism-spectrum disorders.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Hussain, Azham
Abdullah, Adil
Husni, Husniza
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Abdullah, Adil
Husni, Husniza
author_sort Hussain, Azham
title The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
title_short The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
title_full The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
title_fullStr The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
title_full_unstemmed The design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
title_sort design principles of edutainment system for autistic children with communication difficulties
publishDate 2016
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