Developing Design Principles for Autistic Android Application Users : the Case of English Alphabet
| dc.contributor.advisor | Lemma, Dagmawi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bekele, Abreham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-27T07:53:12Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T12:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-27T07:53:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T12:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 7/5/2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are enduring neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders found in early childhood. Children diagnosed with the disorder show communication, emotional, and social impairment varying from mild to severe. Over the last decade, an immense amount of research in computer science has been done on developing different computer-assisted solutions in improving the condition of children diagnosed with autism. The solutions comprise of computer, multi-touch table, smartphone-based application to improve or develop communication (verbal skills), emotional (non-verbal skills), and social interaction skills in these children. However, most of the android applications developed for autistic users are difficult to use, this is mainly due to the lack of standard usability guidelines and principles for developing android applications for autistic users. This research paper identifies design principles to tackle this issue of usability regarding android applications developed for autistic users with an emphasis on English alphabet teaching android application. First characteristics of autistic users that affect the usability of android applications are identified, then usability attributes that are related to autistic users’ characteristics are identified, and then, finally, design principles from previous literatures are revisited and the new ones are developed based on autistic user characteristics and usability attributes. The design principles identified are then tested on end-users, in this case, autistic users, to determine whether they are effective or not. This is done by way of mockups; different mockups for English alphabet teaching android application are developed to test various alternate presentation for each design principles. The mockups are then tested on end-users and test results are documented. The test results show that the design principles identified in this research paper are worthy to be considered in designing English alphabet teaching android application to autistic users, but the principles can also be applied in developing other android applications too. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27373 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Autistic Users | en_US |
| dc.subject | Design Principles | en_US |
| dc.subject | Android Applications | en_US |
| dc.subject | Autism Spectrum Disorder | en_US |
| dc.subject | Usability Attributes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Autistic User Characteristics | en_US |
| dc.title | Developing Design Principles for Autistic Android Application Users : the Case of English Alphabet | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |