AutismGuide: a usability guidelines to design software solutions for users with autism spectrum disorder
Yuska Paola Costa Aguiar, Édith Galy, Anaïs Godde, Maëla Trémaud, Carole Tardif
Abstract
The broad range of symptoms and intra- and interindividual heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) mean that each case is unique. Adapting everyday activities and interventions to individuals with ASD can favour their development and expand their abilities. Software solutions can support this adaptation, by allowing activities to be personalised and broken down into manageable steps, and routines to be defined. The purpose of the present study was to define a set of specific recommendations for developing software solutions adapted to users with ASD (AutismGuide). A systematic literature review yielded 155 recommendations, which were then analysed and reduced to the 69 contained in the AutismGuide. This instrument should allow more adequate software solutions to be designed and developed for individuals with ASD.