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Teaching students how children with neurodevelopmental disorders adopt and interact with technologies
Objectives
We aim to provide guidelines to evaluate the accessibility of technologies used by children with neurodevelopmental disorders. We will close a significant knowledge gap in technology developers by teaching key accessibility skills and awareness to students who are the future technology developers. Advancing technology adaptation to the wants and needs of children with neurodevelopmental disorders will improve interventions, increase the children's quality of life, and boost their inclusion.
Activities
We will perform systematic literature reviews on technology adoption models and methods to evaluate the interaction of children with neurodevelopmental disorders with technologies. We will perform an observational study with at least 25 children. We will develop guidelines on the evaluation of child-technology interaction and provide them in six languages. We will teach accessibility awareness and skills to our students and prepare teaching material that can be used by other university teachers.
Impact
TE(A)CHADOPT shall help to shift the focus of technology providers from producing pure learning applications to joyful and custom-tailored games for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. This will advance the inclusion of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and increase their quality of life. Our guidelines will provide support on how to adapt the products to the children’s needs. Our teaching material will transfer accessibility skills and awareness to students in many countries.
The Partners:
MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAT GRAZ, Austria - Coordinator
Alliance for applied psychology, North Macedonia
Beit Issie Shapiro - Amutat Avi, Israel
ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITES, Türkiye
POLITECHNIKA GDANSKA, Poland
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN, Germany
YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY VAKIF, Türkiye
