Using User Generated Content in Mobile Application to Support Children with Special Needs

Abstract

Children with special needs are able to learn and live their life with normal people. They have certain symptoms that might affect their performance in daily life. Parents and teachers are an important part of the child’s life. They have to find the way to get child’s attention by creating content and media that suitable for them. This could be time consuming and costly. As mobile devices become more accessible to everyone. We propose an application that contains 2D animation of instructional media and interactive games. Moreover, based on the user generated content concept, we allow the parents and teachers to generate content with mobile devices’ functionalities. The content is then fresh and more relevant to each particular student. We tested the application with 15 parents and teachers. After they tested the application with their children, the result from the questionnaire shows that 33 percents of users are very satisfied with the application while the remaining 67 percents satisfied with the application. The parents and teachers gave a high satisfaction towards its beneficial with an overall average at 4.6. They would like to use the application again.