Project: Visual schedules and choice boards are tools used in current best practices for helping children with autism and other special needs. These non-verbal kids need help communicating their choices, understanding time and activities, and so on. We are working with Windows SmartPhone, Linux small displays, and large touchscreen-enabled platforms to develop solutions that ease these burdens, provide logging and visualizations of data, and help automate some of the features of using these communication techniques.
We are also investigating how novel recording technologies, like the Microsoft SenseCam can be used to augment communication between non-verbal children with autism and their caregivers – including both parents and teachers.
Watch a talk Gillian gave at Microsoft Research that covers some of the autism and FitBaby work: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=121512
This work is supported in part by technical assistance and equipment through a collaboration with Microsoft Reserach Cambdridge.
This work is supported by AutismSpeaks Innovative Technologies For Autism program, a generous equipment donation from Nokia Research Palo Alto, and an NSF CAREER award.
The vSked and SenseCam for Autism projects will be presented at IMFAR 2008 in Chicago.
This work was presented at IDC as a poster at the main conference and at the Design for Children with Special Needs Workshop:
The vSked and SenseCam for Autism projects will be presented at IMFAR this year in Chicago.
This work was presented at IDC as a poster at the main conference and at the Design for Children with Special Needs Workshop:
vSked: Interactive Visual Scheduling Systems
Gillian R. Hayes
David Nguyen
Michael Yeganyan
Sen Hirano
Gabriela Marcu
SenseCam
Gillian R. Hayes
Gabriela Marcu
Mocotos: Mobile Communications Tools for Children with Special Needs
Mohamad Monibi
Gillian R. Hayes
Interactive and Intelligent Visual Communication Systems
Gillian R. Hayes
Donald J. Patterson
Mohamad Monibi
Sam Kaufman
This work was also presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research as a poster:
Design of Interactive Visual Scheduling Systems
Sam Kaufman
Donald J. Patterson
Gillian R. Hayes