Abstract
Assistive technologies (ATs) are increasingly proposed to support young autistic individuals (YAAs) in daily life. Yet, the uptake of these technologies remains
limited. Most ATs are designed for and by non-autistic people, which makes them less usable for YAAs. Moreover, ATs specifically designed for YAAs are often part of formal therapy or training and typically aim to mitigate and rectify ‘problematic’ autistic behavior. In the research project Design Your Life, we are working with YAAs to develop a co-design toolkit that will help them create a personalized environment to support their independence. By now, we have completed ten design case studies, each deploying a different version of the toolkit. In this paper, we report on the insights that we gained from these case studies, for which we used a grounded theory approach. In total, we identified ten categories of knowledge that will inform the development of a single, final toolkit.
limited. Most ATs are designed for and by non-autistic people, which makes them less usable for YAAs. Moreover, ATs specifically designed for YAAs are often part of formal therapy or training and typically aim to mitigate and rectify ‘problematic’ autistic behavior. In the research project Design Your Life, we are working with YAAs to develop a co-design toolkit that will help them create a personalized environment to support their independence. By now, we have completed ten design case studies, each deploying a different version of the toolkit. In this paper, we report on the insights that we gained from these case studies, for which we used a grounded theory approach. In total, we identified ten categories of knowledge that will inform the development of a single, final toolkit.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1-21 |
Number of pages | 21 |
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Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | Design Research Society Conference, DRS 2022 - Bilbao, Spain Duration: 25 Jun 2022 → 3 Jul 2022 https://www.drs2022.org |
Conference
Conference | Design Research Society Conference, DRS 2022 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Bilbao |
Period | 25/06/22 → 3/07/22 |
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Keywords
- Design Your Life
- Grounded Theory
- Research-through-design
- co-design
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Research data / data set associated with the PhD research/dissertation of Johannes Cornelis van Huizen, entitled "Design Your Life - Bringing the Autistic Lifeworld to Supportive Technology Design"
van Huizen, J. C. (Creator), van Dijk, J. (Project Leader), van der Voort, M. C. (Supervisor) & Staal, W. (Supervisor), Areda (University of Twente), 7 Nov 2024
https://areda.utsp.utwente.nl:9000/et-hcd/PhD_Thesis_Archive_vHuizen.7z
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