Designing mobile application for colour identification for children with autism
List of Authors
  • Nor Airaneey Mazlan , Romiza Md Nor

Keyword
  • autism spectrum disorder, discrete trial training, empathic design, colour identification

Abstract
  • Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a neurological and development disorder that causes difficulty with social communication, restricted interest and repetitive behaviour. Identifying colour can improve their social communication which also assists with language development. The aim of this project is to design and develop the colour identification mobile applications (ColorID) using discrete trial training (DTT) technique which is a process that is done repeatedly until they can identify colours by following five principles which are antecedent, prompt, response, consequences, and inter-trial interval. Besides that, empathic design is also applied and analysed to understand autistic children by conducting observation and interviewing psychologists to understand their needs. Empathic design is analysed to gather six design guidelines for in the design of ColorID which are appearance, effectiveness, understandable, ease of use, satisfaction and efficiency. The evaluation has been conducted to content experts and teachers to measure the usefulness and satisfaction. Users are also satisfied and agree that ColorID is useful for autism children and the essential functions of ColorID include colour identification activities

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