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A Collaborative Virtual Reality Supermarket Training Application to Teach Shopping Skills to Young Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Lui A. Thomsen, Ali Adjorlu

20212021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)20 citationsDOI

Abstract

This paper presents a collaborative head-mounted display-based virtual reality application designed to teach the daily living skill of shopping to children and adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Students and teachers can join the same virtual supermarket using HMDs and work together to complete a shopping trip. Results from an explorative study on eight adolescents with ASD are presented, and future potentials of the interventions are discussed in the paper.

Topics & Concepts

Autism spectrum disorderVirtual realityAutismTraining (meteorology)Computer sciencePsychologyMultimediaAugmented realityMedical educationHuman–computer interactionApplied psychologyDevelopmental psychologyMedicinePhysicsMeteorologyAutism Spectrum Disorder ResearchTechnology Use by Older AdultsChild Development and Digital Technology
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