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The Sensory Accommodation Framework for Technology : Bridging Sensory Processing to Social Cognition, Hardback Book

The Sensory Accommodation Framework for Technology : Bridging Sensory Processing to Social Cognition Hardback

Part of the Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health series

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This book provides a thorough introduction to the many facets of designing technologies for autism, with a particular focus on optimizing visual attention frameworks.

This book is designed to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of technology for autism.

Each Chapter illustrates different parts of the Sensory Accommodation Framework and provides examples of relevant available technologies.

The books first discusses a variety of skills that make up human development as well as a history of autism as a diagnosis and the birth of the  neurodiversity movement.

It goes on to detail individual types of therapy and how they interact with autism.

The systems involved in sensory processing and their specific relation to autism are then explored, including through technologies that have addressed these areas and applications for designers.

Readers will learn about designing sensory environments and sensory interactions, such as through virtual reality.

This book places a needed emphasis on the hierarchy of information in technology development by exploring visual attention in neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.

It also delves into the relationship between sensory perception and nonverbal communication, the bridge between sensory input and social behavior, and dynamic information.

The discussion is rounded out with examinations of temporal processing as and multisensory integration as complicating factors that have existing technological solutions.

Finally, the book closes with a summary of  the sensory accommodation framework in respect to how each layer offers different user experience goals and specific mechanisms to promote those goals.

Readers from a variety of research backgrounds will find this book informative and useful, while designers will learn essential skills for effectively designing autism technologies.

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