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Ubiquitous and wearable computing solutions have been used to support children and adults with Neuro-Developmental Disorder (NDD), such as Intellectual Disability (ID) , Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Autism The design of these technologies, however, requires a deep understanding not only of what is possible from a clinical standpoint but also how the children with NDD themselves might understand and orient towards wearable technologies, such as a smartwatch.
Children with NDD struggle with self-regulation (i.e., controlling their behaviors and emotions to pursuits goals). Thus, it is needed the caregivers (e.g., parents, teachers) support them, either with motivational or emotional scaffolding. Motivational scaffolding involves the caregivers’ ability to initiate and sustains children enthusiasm for a task, by praise and encouragement, redirection of the children’s attention, or re-starting the goals of the task (i.e., co-regulation). Thus, supporting the collaboration between children with NDD and their caregivers is crucial.
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Project participants: Gillian R Hayes (UC Irvine), Sabrina Schuck (UC Irvine), Kimberley D Lakes (UC Riverside)
Related publications:
Silva, L. M., Cibrian, F. L., Bonang, C., Bhattacharya, A., Min, A., Monteiro, E. M., ... & Epstein, D. A. (2024, May). Co-Designing Situated Displays for Family Co-Regulation with ADHD Children. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-19).
Ankrah, E. A., Cibrian, F. L., Silva, L. M., Tavakoulnia, A., Beltran, J. A., Schuck, S. E., ... & Hayes, G. R. (2023). Me, my health, and my watch: How children with ADHD understand smartwatch health data. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(4), 1-25.
Silva, L. M., Cibrian, F. L., Monteiro, E., Bhattacharya, A., Beltran, J. A., Bonang, C., ... & Hayes, G. R. (2023, April). Unpacking the Lived Experiences of Smartwatch Mediated Self and Co-Regulation with ADHD Children. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-19).
Cibrian, F. L., Monteiro, E., Ankrah, E., Beltran, J. A., Tavakoulnia, A., Schuck, S. E., ... & Lakes, K. D. (2021). Parents’ perspectives on a smartwatch intervention for children with ADHD: Rapid deployment and feasibility evaluation of a pilot intervention to support distance learning during COVID-19. PloS one, 16(10), e0258959.
Cibrian, F. L., Lakes, K. D., Tavakoulnia, A., Guzman, K., Schuck, S., & Hayes, G. R. (2020, April). Supporting Self-Regulation of Children with ADHD Using Wearables: Tensions and Design Challenges. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
Cibrian, F. L. , Lakes K, Schuck S, Tavakoulnia A, Guzman K, Hayes G. 2019. Balancing caregivers and children interaction to support the development of self-regulation skills using a smartwatch application. In Proceedings of UbiComp/ISWC’19. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3345612
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