Preliminary Studies With Augmented Reality Tool To Help In Psycho-pedagogical Tasks With Children Belonging To Autism Spectrum Disorder
Austism Spectrum Disorder, Augmented Reality, Google CardBoard, Exe- cutive Functions, Facial Processing.
The present thesis aims to show the efforts to develop a tool that helps children affected with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).This tool introced is based in Augmented Reality and basically consists of the display of reallife caricatured scenes, visualized through the Google Cardboard glasses, which were used in tasks and psychopedagogical tests performed with these children. We analyzed the relationships about the possible increase in executive functions when they have their facial processing smoothed using the proposed system and seeing the real world as a cartoon. This initial study provides evidences to verify that such children have a particular interest in cartoon in spite of human faces. The results suggest that the proposed environment helps to increase children’s performance in psychopedagogical tasks and that it can be a useful tool to help professio- nals in education in their work to provide better support to these children, especially with regard to development of executive functions of them.