Another busy month for research in autism and technology passed and generated some great content. Have a look! Also, visit our Publications page for an extensive list of recent publications.

• Hartzheim D. (2017) Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Autism. In Handbook of Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder (pp. 269-288). Springer, Cham.
• Chen, R. Y., Feltes, J. R., Tzeng, W. S., Lu, Z. Y., Pan, M., Zhao, N., … & Ross, W. (2017). Phone-based interventions in adolescent psychiatry: a perspective and proof of concept pilot study with a focus on depression and autism. JMIR research protocols, 6(6).
• French, L., & Kennedy, E. M. (2017). Research Review: Early intervention for infants and young children with, or at‐risk of, autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
• Taheri, A., Meghdari, A., Alemi, M., & Pouretemad, H. (2017). Human–Robot Interaction in Autism Treatment: A Case Study on Three Pairs of Autistic Children as Twins, Siblings, and Classmates. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-21.
• Crowell, C., Mora-Guiard, J., & Pares, N. (2017). Impact of Interaction Paradigms on Full-Body Interaction Collocated Experiences for Promoting Social Initiation and Collaboration. Human–Computer Interaction, 1-33.
  with thanks to Ciera Crowell

Two new short articles were featured last month in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry:

• • Daniels, J., Schwartz, J., Haber, N., Voss, C., Kline, A., Fazel, A., … & Wall, D. (2017). 5.13 Design and Efficacy of a Wearable Device for Social Affective Learning in Children With Autism. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(10), S257.
  • Fujioka, T., Mizuno, Y., Takiguchi, S., Fujisawa, T. X., Tsuchiya, K. J., Katayama, T., … & Kosaka, H. (2017). 5.14 Attention to Eye in Still Face Strongly Related to Sociality Compared to Other Social Information in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(10), S257-S258.

John McGowan from Edinburgh Napier University made a paper presentation at ASSETS 17 conference in Baltimore at the end of October. The theme of the conference was assistive technology and you can read the corresponding paper here:

• McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017, June). CymaSense: A Real-Time 3D Cymatics-Based Sound Visualisation Tool. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 270-274). ACM.