Interactive interface design for learning numeracy and calculation for children with autism

Abstract

Nowadays education with technology is highly preferable for children as children are way more engrossed to gadgets. The use of devices, in educational sectors, is rising day by day. Children with autism are one of the most benefited parts in this area. If the gadget is a touchscreen assistive tool, then the interest of an autistic child is increased. Devising and designing an interactive interface system for autism children with the help of participatory interface design process that has been guided with autistic children before and encouraged us to develop the touchscreen assistive learning numeracy and calculation system, named Play and Learn Number(PLaN). The application mainly focused on teaching numeracy and calculation cause without having a basic idea on numeracy and calculation regular life is hard to move on. We also focused on user interface design with some latest approaches like dot matching and puzzling which will be applied in the application. The PLaN application is also usable for teachers and parents to train and educate the autism children; it will also help to grow their interest in learning as several reinforcements are included in it. It is assumed that after establishing of this application, the autistic child will be able to learn more than before. This application will also help the children to memorize and recognize the numbers with or without sequence through the animated pictures and interactive learning application. Finally, this paper described the user interface design process broadly for forming PLaN to teach basic numeracy and calculations to children with autism.