Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app

Mark Donnelly; Raymond Bond; Maurice Mulvenna; Laurence Taggart; Diane Hill; Pauline Fitzsimons; Suzanne Martin; Angela Hassiotis

doi:10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.152

Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app

Mark Donnelly, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Laurence Taggart, Diane Hill, Pauline Fitzsimons, Suzanne Martin, Angela Hassiotis

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Abstract

This short paper describes the evolution of a smartphone application, which aims to offer support for individuals living with an intellectual disability. The JAM (Just-a-minute) App enables people with a cognitive disability, such as those with an intellectual disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder to inform service providers that they need ‘Just A Minute’ to get themselves organised, e.g. counting money. The app offers a simple and intuitive service that supports users to become more socially connected to the society around them by eliciting empathic responses from other actors in society. This paper describes the original non-digital version of the technology before presenting the current app version. The paper reports the success of the app through use case reports of its real-world use. It concludes with a reflection on the current app status and outlines the investigators’ future plans to enrich the service with intelligent conversational interfaces (also known as chatbots).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI-2018)
Editors	Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Jonathan Wallace, Michaela Black
Publisher	BCS Learning & Development Ltd
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.152
Publication status	Published - 23 Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference: British Computer Society (ACM Proceedings) - Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 02 Jul 2018 → 06 Jul 2018 http://hci2018.bcs.org/index.php/keynotes/

Publication series

Name	Electronic Workshops in Computing
ISSN (Electronic)	1477-9358

Conference

Conference	32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference
Abbreviated title	HCI 2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Belfast
Period	02/07/2018 → 06/07/2018
Internet address	http://hci2018.bcs.org/index.php/keynotes/

Keywords

Mobile Design
Assistive Cognitive Design
Coversational Interfaces
intellectual disability
Autism spectrum disorders
chatbot

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Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app
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Donnelly, M., Bond, R., Mulvenna, M., Taggart, L., Hill, D., Fitzsimons, P., Martin, S., & Hassiotis, A. (2018). Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app. In R. Bond, M. Mulvenna, J. Wallace, & M. Black (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI-2018) (Electronic Workshops in Computing). BCS Learning & Development Ltd. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.152

Donnelly, Mark ; Bond, Raymond ; Mulvenna, Maurice et al. / Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app. Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI-2018). editor / Raymond Bond ; Maurice Mulvenna ; Jonathan Wallace ; Michaela Black. BCS Learning & Development Ltd, 2018. (Electronic Workshops in Computing).

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Donnelly, M, Bond, R, Mulvenna, M, Taggart, L, Hill, D, Fitzsimons, P, Martin, S & Hassiotis, A 2018, Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app. in R Bond, M Mulvenna, J Wallace & M Black (eds), Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI-2018). Electronic Workshops in Computing, BCS Learning & Development Ltd, 32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom, 02/07/2018. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.152

Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app. / Donnelly, Mark; Bond, Raymond; Mulvenna, Maurice et al.
Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI-2018). ed. / Raymond Bond; Maurice Mulvenna; Jonathan Wallace; Michaela Black. BCS Learning & Development Ltd, 2018. (Electronic Workshops in Computing).

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Facilitating social connectedness for people with autism and intellectual disability using an interactive app

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