Emotional self-regulation of individuals with autism spectrum disorders: smartwatches for monitoring and interaction
Publisher
MDPI AGDate
2017-06-11Citation
10.3390/s17061359
Sensors 17.6 (2017):1359
ISSN
1424-8220DOI
10.3390/s17061359Funded by
This work has been partially funded by the projects “e-Training y e-Coaching para la integración socio—laboral” (TIN2013-44586-R) and “eMadrid-CM: Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Educativas en la Comunidad de Madrid” (S2013/ICE-2715). It has been also funded by Fundación Orange during the early stages of the project “Tic-Tac-TEA: Sistema de asistencia para la autorregulación emocional en momentos de crisis para personas con TEA mediante smartwatches”Project
Gobierno de España. TIN2013-44586-R; Comunidad de Madrid. S2013/ICE-2715Subjects
Wearable computing; assistive technologies; affective computing; behavioral monitoring; cognitive disabilities; mobile assistance; ubiquitous computing; InformáticaRights
© 2017 by the authorsAbstract
In this paper, we analyze the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
to have a pervasive, feasible and non-stigmatizing form of assistance in their emotional self-regulation,
in order to ease certain behavioral issues that undermine their mental health throughout their life.
We argue the potential of recent widespread wearables, and more specifically smartwatches, to achieve
this goal. Then, a smartwatch system that implements a wide range of self-regulation strategies
and infers outburst patterns from physiological signals and movement is presented, along with an
authoring tool for smartphones that is to be used by caregivers or family members to create and edit
these strategies, in an adaptive way. We conducted an intensive experiment with two individuals
with ASD who showed varied, representative behavioral responses to their emotional dysregulation.
Both users were able to employ effective, customized emotional self-regulation strategies by means
of the system, recovering from the majority of mild stress episodes and temper tantrums experienced
in the nine days of experiment in their classroom
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Google Scholar:Torrado Vidal, Juan Carlos
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Gómez Escribano, Javier
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Montoro Manrique, Germán
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