Guided play: digital sensing and coaching for stereotypical play behavior in children with autism

Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) are a core symptom and an early marker of autism. Current research and intervention for RRB heavily rely on professional experience and effort. Guided Play is a technology that uses instrumented games and toys as a platform to understand children's play behavior and facilitate behavioral intervention during play. This paper presents the design and implementation of a prototype based on the technology, as well as an evaluation on 6 children with autism. The results show that children with RRBs in physical world activities also exhibit similar patterns in a similar digital activity, and that digital coaching can reduce RRBs by expanding children's play skill repertoire and promoting symbolic play.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

• Publication date

  2019-03-17

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/3301275.3302309
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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