Personalised avatar on social stories and digital storytelling: Fostering positive behavioural skills for children with autism spectrum disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become more prevalent nowadays. One of the biggest challenges in providing services for ASD kids' learning is by overcoming their behavioural skills. This paper presents a study regarding the use of a mobile application on five children affected with Autism Sp...

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Published in2016 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr) pp. 253 - 258
Main Authors Kuan Tian Ying, Sah, Shahrul Badariah Mat, Abdullah, Muhammad Haziq Lim
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2016
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Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Avatars
digital storytelling
Education
Interviews
Mobile applications
mobile apps
personalised avatar character
Road safety
road safety awareness application
social stories
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Summary:Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become more prevalent nowadays. One of the biggest challenges in providing services for ASD kids' learning is by overcoming their behavioural skills. This paper presents a study regarding the use of a mobile application on five children affected with Autism Spectrum Disorder, assisted by a teacher in assessing their classroom behavioural skills. Social Stories and digital storytelling are both utilized in this research to support and assist each child response to the road safety awareness. The study shows that social stories and digital storytelling have the potential to promote positive attribute in children' behaviour, not only in terms of their engagement with the road safety awareness, but their interest in learning the content also increases.
DOI:10.1109/IUSER.2016.7857970