A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of IDM and Card Sorting Method for Autism Specialized School Website

Abstract

With the advent of new technologies, software and web applications have been an integral part of today’s modern life. These applications are exclusively designed and developed for different themes and purposes. Present day an autism-related web application, being one of the most demanding applications requires effective, efficient and satisfactory services with a package of portability across all platforms. The success of a product significantly depends upon the factor of usability. A clear, concise, and user-interactive design interface is the key to a successful product or application. In the current literature reviewed, no particular design technique has so far been proposed to implement a multi-channel autism application. The objective of our study is to create two websites using Card sorting and Interactive Dialogue Model (IDM) on the same topic, compare between these two websites and perform a comparative study considering some parameters to find out which approach is a better approach for website making. We have developed an autism application using card sorting and IDM. An evaluation was carried out with a number of participants. As an outcome, we have proposed one design technique to produce an effective and easy-to-use web application for autistic children.