Critical Experience
Katta Spiel · 2017
Technologies for autistic children dominantly focus on diagnostic procedures, interventionist approaches or therapeutic support. The space of technologies for positive experiences for autistic children has only recently been explored. My research is situated in the OutsideTheBox project where we co-design such technologies with autistic children. Concretely, my PhD tackles the questions of how to assess the experiences autistic children have with the resulting technologies and how these technologies are meaningful to them. To this effect, I conceptually broaden a critical understanding of experience within HCI and develop an approach for participatory evaluation with autistic children.