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CymaSense: a novel audio-visual therapeutic tool for people on the autism spectrum.
  Music Therapy has been shown to be an effective intervention for clients with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition that can affect people in a number of ways. This paper presents a study evaluating the use of a multimodal 3D interactive tool, CymaSense, within a series of music therapy sessions. Eight adults with ASC participated in an 8-week period using a single case experimental design approach. The study used qualitative and quantitative methodological tools for analysis within and beyond the therapy sessions. The results indicate an increase in communicative behaviours for both verbal and non-verbal participants.

  • Date:

    19 October 2017

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    ACM Press

  • DOI:

    10.1145/3132525.3132539

  • Library of Congress:

    QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    000 Computer science, information & general works

Citation

McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). CymaSense: a novel audio-visual therapeutic tool for people on the autism spectrum. In ASSETS '17 Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (62-71). https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132539

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Keywords

Information interfaces and presentation: Graphical User Interfaces (GUI); Prototyping; Screen Design; User-Centered Design; Visualization Theory, Concepts and Paradigms Keywords Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC); Assistive Technologies; Music Therapy; Interactive Audio-Visual; Multi-Sensory Environments; Cymatics

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