NDLI: Creating a software to promote understanding about narrative in children with autism: Reflecting on the design of feedback and opportunities to reason

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Davis, M. Otero, N. Dautenhahn, K. Nehaniv, C.L. Powell, S.D.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Hertfordshire Univ., Hatfield (Davis, M.; Otero, N.; Dautenhahn, K.; Nehaniv, C.L.)
Abstract	TouchStory is a software game that aims at improving the understanding of narrative by children with autism. In fact, the underlying conceptual framework intends to investigate to what extent we can improve the children's understanding of narrative through the introduction of simple game-like tasks that address primitive components of narrative. The game has strong analogies with the concrete, physical world. Our design approach, following our knowledge regarding this particular group of learners, was to 'keep things simple', introducing features only if necessary to provide each individual child with a focussed and enjoyable game, from which that particular child may learn about, or absorb, (or become more familiar with) primitive components of narrative. In this paper we concentrate on issues of reward, feedback, and opportunities for reasoning (about the task and/or their own performance) provided by software. We present results from the first 7 visits of an ongoing longitudinal study involving 6 children each with a diagnosis of autism. We consider the children's apparent engagement with TouchStory, and in particular, we focus on the strategy each child adopts and consequent feedback from the software. This analysis prompted us to further reflect on the specificities of this group of children and the challenges to create supportive learning environments.
Starting Page	64
Ending Page	69
File Size	311510
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424411153
DOI	10.1109/DEVLRN.2007.4354045
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-07-11
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Adaptive systems software design Humans Software performance narrative Computer science Autism Software design Feedback interaction Concrete Computer science education Robots
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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