Decoding social situations in adolescents with Asperger through a serious game

Karim Sehaba (1) , Audrey Serna (1)

1 SICAL - Situated Interaction, Collaboration, Adaptation and Learning

This work focuses on the development of social skills in adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. In this context, several multimedia tools to support learning have been developed. These tools have the advantage of being flexible and fun for some. However, they generally lack interaction and realism. Thus, in some cases, it is difficult for people with Asperger to transpose the skills acquired through these tools in real situations. Our goal was to develop a serious game that facilitates immersion of Asperger adolescents in the game through real situations in order to facilitate the transfer of skills. The game we have developed was designed and tested in the context of a project in partnership with experts and Asperger adolescents.

Mots clés: Serious Game; Disabilities; Asperger syndrome; participative design; evaluation.

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Recherche d'information [cs.IR]; Informatique

Karim Sehaba, Audrey Serna. Decoding social situations in adolescents with Asperger through a serious game. AMSE, Journal of the Association for the Advancement of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises, 2015, 75 (2), pp.234-246. ⟨hal-01205734⟩