AS-Interactive
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- Full name
- AS-Interactive - Development of social skills amongst adults with Asperger's Syndrome using virtual environments
- Acronym
- AS-Interactive
- Website
- http://www.virart.nott.ac.uk/asi/
- Keywords
- social skills training, single user VEs, CVEs, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, individualised learning
- Budget
- €
- Start date
- March 2000
- End date
- June 2003
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Partners
- UNott, Dr. Sue Cobb
- National Autistic Society, Ms. Eileen Hopkins
Funding Bodies
- The Shirley Foundation, UK
Contact
Dr. Sue Cobb, UNott
Objectives
To design, develop and evaluate single user and collaborative virtual environments to support Social Skills Training from children and adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), specifically Asperger’s Syndrome
Main Results
1. Demonstrator CVEs representing 2 social interaction scenarios (meeting someone in a café and going for an interview) 2. Single user VEs representing task objectives for queuing and finding somewhere to sit in two social settings (a café and a bus) – free download from project website 3. Scientific research studies: 3.1 Methods for involving users with ASD in design 3.2 Evaluation of user perceptions of VEs 3.3 Evaluation of how VEs support social skills training 3.4 Evaluation of learning outcomes 3.5 Developing VEs for individualised learning
Publications
Parsons, S., Beardon, L., Neale, H. R., Reynard, G., Eastgate, R., Wilson, J. R., Cobb, S. V., Benford, S., Mitchell, P., & Hopkins, E. (2000). Development of social skills amongst adults with Asperger's Syndrome using virtual environments: The AS Interactive project. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies, Sardinia, 23-25th September, 163-170.
Beardon, L., Parsons, S. & Neale, H. (2001) An inter-disciplinary approach to investigating the use of virtual reality environments for people with Asperger Syndrome. Educational and Child Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 2, 53-62.
Cobb, S., Beardon,L., Eastgate, R., Glover, T., Kerr, S., Neale, H., Parsons, S., Benford, S., Hopkins, E., Mitchell, P., Reynard, G. and Wilson, J.R. (2002) Applied Virtual Environments to support learning of Social Interaction Skills in users with Asperger’s Syndrome. Digital Creativity, Vol. 13, No. 1, 11-22.
Cobb, S. (2002), Virtual Environments for Special Needs Education and Training. Video Conference Presentation at: Virtual Reality & Rehabilitation: Algorithms, Avatars & Applications, Nov 11-13, University of Haifa, Israel.
Rutten, A., Neale, H., Cobb, S., Kerr, S., Parsons, S., Leonard, A., Mitchell, P., and Glover, T. (2002), Development and Evaluation of Single User and Collaborative Virtual Environments for Users with Asperger Syndrome. Proceedings of First International Workshop on Virtual Reality Rehabilitation (Mental Health, Neurological, Physical, Vocational), VRMHR 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov 7-8, 129-142.
Rutten, A., Neale, H., Cobb, S., Kerr, S., Parsons, S., Leonard, A., Mitchell, P., and Glover, T. (2002), The AS Interactive Project: Further development and evaluation of VEs for users with Asperger’s Syndrome. 2nd Workshop on Robotic and Virtual Interactive Systems in Autism Therapy, Hospital La Salpêtrière, Paris, 27-28 September.
Rutten, A., Cobb, S., Neale, H., Kerr, S., Leonard, A., Parsons, S., and Mitchell, P. (2003), The AS Interactive Project: Single-User and Collaborative Virtual Environments for People with High-Functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 14, 233-241
Neale, H.R., Cobb, S.V. and Wilson, J.R. (2002) A front-ended approach to the user-centred design of Virtual Environments. Proceedings of IEEEVR 2002, 24th-28th March, 191-198. Neale, H.R. (2001) Using virtual reality to teach social skills to people with Asperger's Syndrome: Explaining virtual reality and user-centred methodology, 12th Annual Durham Conference: An Autism Odyssey, April 4th-6th, Durham.
Cobb, S., Kerr, S. and Glover, T. The AS Interactive Project: Developing Virtual Environments for Social Skills Training in Users with Asperger’s Syndrome. 1st Workshop on Robotic and Virtual Interactive Systems in Autism Therapy at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 27-28th September 2001.
Neale, H. Involving user groups in the review of virtual environments. 1st Workshop on Robotic and Virtual Interactive Systems in Autism Therapy at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 27-28th September 2001.
Kerr, S.J. (2002) Scaffolding - Design issues in single and collaborative virtual environments for social skills learning. Proceedings of Eight Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments EGVE2002, 29th-30th May, Barcelona.
Kerr, S.J., Neale, H.R., & Cobb, S.V.G. (2002) Virtual Environments for Social Skills Training: The Importance of Scaffolding in Practice. In: Julie Jacko (Ed) The Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS 2002), ACM Press, pp104-110.
Neale, H., Cobb, S. and Kerr, S. (2003) An inclusive design toolbox for development of educational Virtual Environments. Presented at: Include2003, Royal College of Art, London, 25-28 March 2003
Parsons, S. & Mitchell, P. (2002). The potential of virtual reality in social skills training for people with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Vol. 46, 430-443.
Parsons, S. & Mitchell, P. (2001). Virtual Reality and people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Informal observations from the AS Interactive project. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Durham International Conference on Autism, April 4th-6th, 2001, Autism North.
Parsons, S., Mitchell, P. & Leonard, A. (accepted). The use and understanding of virtual environments by adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Parsons, S., Mitchell, P., & Leonard, A. (accepted) Do adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders adhere to social conventions in virtual environments? Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.
Parsons, S. Social conventions in virtual environments: Investigating understanding of personal space amongst people with autistic spectrum disorders. Workshop on Robotic and Virtual Interactive Systems in Autism Therapy at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 27-28th September 2001.
Leonard, A., Mitchell, P. & Parsons, S. (2002). Finding a place to sit: A preliminary investigation into the effectiveness of Virtual Environments for social skills training for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies, Veszprem, Hungary, September, 2002, 249-257.
Neale, H.R., Cobb, S.V. Kerr, S. and Leonard, A. (2002) Exploring the role of Virtual Environments in the Special Needs Classroom. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies, Veszprem, Hungary, September 2002, 259-266.
Parsons, Mitchell and Leonard. (2005) Do adolescents with ASDs adhere to social conventions in VEs? Autism, 9 (1), 95-117
Parsons, Mitchell and Leonard. (2004) The use and understanding of VEs by adolescents with ASDs. Jnl of Autism & Developmental Disorders , 34 (4),
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