A Personalized Communication Application for Children with Autism through a Participatory Design Approach

Abstract

Developing regions lack personalizable mobile applications with cultural context for CWA to aid in communication with parents and teachers. This led us to design and develop an application to address this underexplored area. Three participants (parents and teachers of CWA participated in two participatory design sessions to develop and improve the application. The same participants shared their views on the design and features of the application in the first study and provided feedback about them in the second study. There exists a literature gap on cultural context-based applications and a lack of personalization features for CWA. Our study aims to provide meaningful communication between CWA and others by developing a communication application that can be customized and personalized to cater to their needs. This work provides contextual design factors to HCI researchers by prototyping and developing a communication platform for CWA.