We have an update!

We are gladly presenting a new paper published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction about the participatory design of a Kinect game for autistic people, which expands on conference proceedings on this same project.

The project is led by Dr. Kristen Gillespie (Psychology) and Dr. Deborah Sturm (Computer Science) and as the authors state “From its inception, autistic college students have been involved in an iterative process to design, evaluate, and redesign the game“.

Highlights:

• The game encourages autistic people to collaborate and recognise complex emotions.
• It’s a two-player game where players have to communicate in-person to make decisions.
• A face tracking component measures the in-game cooperation
• A metric is proposed to automatically quantify collaboration replacing hand-coded evaluations

References

Sturm, D., Kholodovsky, M., Arab, R., Smith, D. S., Asanov, P., & Gillespie-Lynch, K. Participatory Design of a Hybrid Kinect Game to Promote Collaboration between Autistic Players and their Peers.

Read Connecting through Kinect, the team’s previous paper presented at Design, User Experience, and Usability conference.

Read a previous ASDTech blog post about this project.