Case Study: Emotional Recognition

Emotional Recognition for Autistic Individuals

AAC - Autism - Emotional Recognition - Communication - Emotional Regulation - UX Honeycomb - UCD

Enhancing Joy for Autistic Individuals by Improving Emotional Recognition in Digital Spaces.

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Emotional Recognition for Autistic Individuals

Corelates of Joy

The author addresses the significance of joy through a survey based on emotions, experiences, and challenges, with a special emphasis on documenting and learning emotional recognition.

Integrity

This study considered how joy is experienced by autistic individuals when digital technology is used to overcome barriers to emotional recognition. Beneficial features included those which allowed accurate and nuanced recording and sharing of emotions. This reflects the supervenience of joy on self-to-world integrity (as users reach a greater understanding of others’ emotions), self-efficacy (as users share their own emotions in the way they want, and to the extent they want), and self-consciousness (as users achieve greater understanding of their own emotions)

Peak inside the project

In the Image: Chart above shows that over 15% of users always experienced avoiding social situations, being unsure of how to respond to others’ emotions and how to respond to their emotions. Where over 50% of users often experienced struggles in forming relationships.

Dependent

This study considered the joy experienced by autistic individuals when technology is used to remove barriers to emotional recognition.

Root causes were determined to be barriers in enhancing emotional recognition and therefore barriers in experiencing joy. A user journey of the daily life of an adult autistic person, including their experiences, goals, and feelings at work, with family and friends and engaging in their hobbies in relation to emotional recognition challenges has been created. These stages indicate that users may experience challenges in a variety of contexts throughout their day, and therefore the following design recommendations can be accessible and applicable to a multitude of scenarios.