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Agency of Autistic Children in Technology Research—A Critical Literature Review

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Spiel, Katta, Frauenberger, Christopher, Keyes, Os, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine·2019·ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
DOI 10.1145/3344919
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Autistic children are increasingly a focus of technology research within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community. We provide a critical review of the purposes of these technologies and how they discursively conceptualise the agency of autistic children. Through our analysis, we establish six categories of these purposes: behaviour analysis, assistive technologies, education, social skills, therapy and well-being. Further, our discussion of these purposes shows how the technologies embody normative expectations of a neurotypical society, which predominantly views autism as a medical deficit in need of ‘correction’. Autistic children—purportedly the beneficiaries of these technologies—thus become a secondary audience to the largely externally defined purposes. We identify a lack of design for technologies that are geared towards the interests, needs and desires of autistic children. To move HCI’s research into autism beyond this, we provide guidance on how to consider agency in use and explicitly allow for appropriation beyond externally driven goals.

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Authors
Spiel, K., Frauenberger, C., Keyes, O., & Fitzpatrick, G.
Venue
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2019-11-02
Volume
26
Issue
6
Pages
1-40
ISSN
  • 1073-0516 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7325
DOI
10.1145/3344919
OpenAlex
W2988620880
Cited by
285
References
249
FWCI
20.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Funders
Austrian Science Fund (P26281-N23/P29970-N31)

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