COMPUTER GAME DEVELOPMENT TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

• Grant number: 15/12248-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Marcia Aparecida Silva Bissaco
• Grantee: Marcia Aparecida Silva Bissaco
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria Acadêmica. Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes (UMC). Campus da Sede Mogi das Cruzes. Mogi das Cruzes , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alessandro Pereira da Silva ; Daieny Panhan Theodório ; Silvia Cristina Martini Rodrigues ; Terigi Augusto Scardovelli ; Vera Socci ; Wolley Willians Silva

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has three key features that affect the development of children, who are inability to interact socially, difficulty in the field of language to communicate and pattern of restrictive and repetitive behavior. According to WHO for more than 70 million people with ASD in the world and, according to the Brazilian Society of Autism, nearly 2 million people with ASD. A major cause of the inability to interact socially is linked to the difficulty in recognizing the facial expressions associated with the emotions. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to develop and validate a computer game to help minimize this difficulty. For this, will be used principles of Software Engineering and entertaining games and also considered the particular skills to TEA degree of damage according to criteria of the American Psychological Association (APA). The assessment of this game while playful teaching method will be carried out by 5 psychologists, 2 educational psychologists, 5 educators and also 5 experts in games, while its effectiveness is verified with the help of 90 children divided into two groups: G1 with 30 children ASD and G2 for 30 normal children. Software and effectiveness tests will be performed and the results will be applied statistical tests such as analysis of variance and normality test. With the development of this game, is expected to stimulate the emotions perception of children with ASD and hence increase the social interaction of them, contributing to the task of educators, psychologists and parents. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ALMEIDA, LEANDRO M.; DA SILVA, DIEGO P.; THEODORIO, DAIENY P.; SILVA, WOLLEY W.; RODRIGUES, SILVIA CRISTINA M.; SCARDOVELLI, TERIGI A.; DA SILVA, ALESSANDRO P.; BISSACO, MARCIA APARECIDA S.. ALTRIRAS: A Computer Game for Training Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Recognition of Basic Emotions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER GAMES TECHNOLOGY, 2019. (15/12248-2)

ANTUNES, B. R.; ABREU, F. D. L.; RODRIGRUES, S. C. M.; SILVA, D. P.; BONINI, L. M. M.; BISSACO, M. A. S.; COSTAFELIX, R; MACHADO, JC; ALVARENGA, AV. Computerized Method for Teaching the Brazilian Sign Language. XXVI BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CBEB 2018, VOL. 2, v. 70, n. 2, p. 5-pg., 2019-01-01. (15/12248-2)

DA CRUZ NETTO, OVIDIO LOPES; MARTINI RODRIGUES, SILVIA CRISTINA; DE CASTRO, MARCUS VASCONCELOS; DA SILVA, DIEGO PEREIRA; DA SILVA, ROBSON RODRIGUES; BRANCATO DE SOUZA, RICHARD RIBEIRO; FERREIRA DE SOUZA, ADRIANA A.; SILVA BISSACO, MARCIA APARECIDA. Memorization of daily routines by children with Down syndrome assisted by a playful virtual environment. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 10, n. 1, FEB 21 2020. (15/12248-2)

SILVA BISSACO, MARCIA APARECIDA; FRERE, ANNIE FRANCE; BISSACO, LUIZ FERNANDO; MANRIQUE, ANA LUCIA; DIRANI, ELY; RUGERRO, NIUBE; AMATE, FLAVIO CEZAR. A computerized tool to assess reading skills of students with motor impairment. MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS, v. 77, p. 31-42, MAR 2020. (15/12248-2)

DIEGO PEREIRA DA SILVA; FLAVIO CEZAR AMATE; FELIPE RODRIGUES MARTINÊZ BASILE; CESÁRIO BIANCHI FILHO; SILVIA CRISTINA MARTINI RODRIGUES; MARCIA APARECIDA SILVA BISSACO. AACVOX: mobile application for augmentative alternative communication to help people with speech disorder and motor impairment. Res. Biomed. Eng., v. 34, n. 2, p. 166-175, 2018-06-00. (15/12248-2)

ALMEIDA, LEANDRO M.; DA SILVA, DIEGO P.; THEODORIO, DAIENY P.; SILVA, WOLLEY W.; RODRIGUES, SILVIA CRISTINA M.; SCARDOVELLI, TERIGI A.; DA SILVA, ALESSANDRO P.; BISSACO, MARCIA APARECIDA S.. ALTRIRAS: A Computer Game for Training Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Recognition of Basic Emotions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER GAMES TECHNOLOGY, v. 2019, p. 16-pg., 2019-01-01. (15/12248-2)