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Involving Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affected people in design

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This research aims at moving from design for disabled people to design led by disabled people. This is achieved by defining a roadmap suggesting how to involve people affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in design. These people could represent an added value given their uncommon reasoning mechanisms. The core of the roadmap consists of tests involving groups of ASD and neurotypical people. These tests are performed using shapes; the testers are asked for interacting with these shapes and highlighting aroused functions, meanings and emotions. The outcomes are analyzed in terms of variety, quality, frequency and originality, and elaborated in order to pursue unforeseen, innovative design solutions.

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  1. Politecnico di Ingegneria e Architettura Department (DPIA), University of Udine, Udine, Italy

    Stefano Filippi & Daniela Barattin

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  1. Université de Technologie de Compiègne , Compiègne, France

    Benoit Eynard

  2. Dip di Ingegneria Chimica, Gest,Info,Mec, Università degli Studi di Palermo Dip di Ingegneria Chimica, Gest,Info,Mec, Palermo, Italy

    Vincenzo Nigrelli

  3. Dip di Ing, Elet, e Elet, Inform (DIEEI), Università degli Studi di Catania Dip di Ing, Elet, e Elet, Inform (DIEEI), Catania, Italy

    Salvatore Massimo Oliveri

  4. Camino De Vera S/N, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Camino De Vera S/N, Valencia, Spain

    Guillermo Peris-Fajarnes

  5. Dept of Mechanical Energy and Management, University of Calabria Dept of Mechanical Energy and Management, Rende (Cosenza), Italy

    Sergio Rizzuti

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Filippi, S., Barattin, D. (2017). Involving Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affected people in design. In: Eynard, B., Nigrelli, V., Oliveri, S., Peris-Fajarnes, G., Rizzuti, S. (eds) Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45781-9_38

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