EMOTIONAL DESIGN APPROACHES IN DESIGNING INTERFACES FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER

Abstract

Aiming to analyze the inclusive context in the field of research, narrowing down themes that are related to the development of products for, specifically, children on the autistic spectrum and understanding how researchers have built their work on this subject, this article was designed to understand how these researches that use emotional design approaches to the construction of interfaces for autistic children are being developed around the world, with this it will be possible to answer relevant questions to understand how emotional design can help in the development of these interfaces, as well as which methodologies are most used by researchers and how they address the emotions of children participating in their studies. This study had as a research method the systematic mapping of literature. The results showed relevant conclusions about the questions mentioned above, such as that emotional design is not used singly, but accompanied by other approaches and methodologies, such as participatory design, where it becomes possible to insert the child in the construction process of interface design, along with their parents and other professionals such as psychologists and the researchers and designers themselves.