Co-designing play activities and monitoring tools with smart interactive toys to support early intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder and comparable neurodevelopmental conditions
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Beste Ozcan, Valerio Sperati, Flora Giocondo, Jonata Tyska Carvalho, Gianluca BaldassarreAuthors Info & Claims
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In this workshop we will present, through live demos, novel technological tools such as interactive "smart" toys for social play and AI-based monitoring tools, developed to support the early treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We will discuss the potential of such devices, describing also our promising results with ASD children. The goal of the workshop is to involve the specialist audience in the co-design of some potential aspects of the overall system. In particular, we are interested in collecting feedback and proposals on possible further uses of the system such as additional play activities to stimulate social behaviour; improvements of the monitoring tools; potential use of the tools in developmental disorders other than ASD.
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