School Simulator Autistic Preschool Training App by Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou |
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| DESIGN NAME: School Simulator PRIMARY FUNCTION: Autistic Preschool Training App INSPIRATION: School Simulator was inspired by the special needs of autistic children in the inclusive education. In an inclusive school, these children can sit in the same classrooms and join learning activities together with their typically developing peers. However, due to the disorder of emotion and social behavior, it always takes them longer time to get used to the schedule and environment around. We realized the meaningful effects of preschool training for the autistic children. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: School Simulator is an app aiming at supporting parents, teachers and therapists to give preschool training of children with autism spectrum disorder. It mainly contains two parts: preschool training and community communication. Autistic children can get trained in four categories, self care, instruction understanding, interpersonal interaction, and one day in school, which are expected helpful for their future integration into inclusive classes. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Once the app is launched, users can freely choose training lessons for their children, or communicate with others. In each training lesson, children are encouraged to make choices, talk to cartoon characters, and show specified facial expressions based on the context or cues. The built-in algorithms of speech recognition and facial expression recognition can provide quick and accurate feedback to their responses. Once a wrong response is detected, the corresponding training part will be automatically recorded while encouraging the child to redo it till correct. In addition, users can view the training history with accuracy records and make notes at any time. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in October 2021 and finished in January 2022 in Shenzhen. |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Desk research, field studies, focus group interviews, consumer journey map, and collage activities were conducted for the demand analysis part. Figma, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator were used for the interfaces and interaction design in the project realization. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Designed for iOS system TAGS: Interface Design, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Speech and Gesture, Pre-school Training RESEARCH ABSTRACT: We first conducted a desk research, gathering preliminary information towards the autistic children and their common problems in the inclusive education. Second, through a field study, we recorded these children’s emotional problems and behavioral disorders, and observed some intervention methods used. Third, in depth interviews were conducted with experts in autistic research, which made our design focus on the preschool training. Fourth, we made the one-day journey map of a primary school student, exploring various context autistic children may have trouble in, therefore guided the design of training lessons. Finally, we recruited preschool autistic children and collected their preference of colors and cartoon characters via collage activity, used as the reference in the interfaces and characters design. The interfaces and training lessons were constantly iterated in the later evaluations. CHALLENGE: The design activity met two challenges: the integration of various training needs, and the design of training lessons. First, though all target autistic children, each of them met different problems in daily life, requiring the variety of content and intensity. Therefore, on the basis of four general training categories, various lessons are provided for users to choose accordingly. Second, since these young children can hardly concentrate for a long period, lessons must be succinct in content, interesting in form, and filled with interactive practice, therefore enhancing the training effectiveness. ADDED DATE: 2022-02-15 12:26:47 TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Student: Xinyue Liu, Faculties: Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou IMAGE CREDITS: Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou, 2021. |
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NAME: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen PROFILE: Founded in 1920, Harbin Institute of Technology is an open, multidisciplinary, research-oriented, leading national university. It is a member of China’s top Nine University Union. Renowned as the cradle of engineers, the university has many firsts. HIT established the first School of Astronautics in China. It was the first Chinese university to independently develop and enter small satellites (smallsats and microsats) into the moon’s orbit. HIT was also the first to achieve satellite ground laser communication link communications. Additionally, HIT developed the first computer to play chess and talk with people and it is the first university to produce arc- and spot welding robots. Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ) was established in 2002 as a satellite graduate school of the Harbin Institute of Technology. Currently, over 3,000 graduate students attend HITSZ situated in Shenzhen University Town.Together with Weihai campus and Shenzhen campus, HIT forms the pattern of One University, Three Campuses. HIT is steadily moving towards the goal of becoming a world-class university. |
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School Simulator Autistic Preschool Training App by Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou is Winner in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Category, 2021 - 2022.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Xinyue Liu, Huicong Hu and Shumeng Hou. |
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