Personas and socially aware design in the characterization of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a technological and social approach

Personas and socially aware design in the characterization of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a technological and social approach

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연구 분야: Databases

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학회: Universal Access in the Information Society

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초록

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by challenges with attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity, with three clinical presentations: inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, and combined. Integrating concepts from Socially Aware Design and Personas, this paper presents DSFlake, a model proposed in this work, to support interface designers in building personas to represent ADHD presentations. Furthermore, using DSFlake, we created three personas, ‘Charlote Jones’, ‘Alex Oliveira’, and ‘Yago Souza’, representing the three types of users. These personas were enriched with data from the literature, a database with information from children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD, and responses from an online questionnaire explicitly created for this research. This work contributes to Human-Computer Interaction and inclusion studies by proposing the DSFlake model and three personas to represent persons with ADHD. This model can help interface designers, parents, teachers, and society by providing an empathetic understanding of the unique characteristics and potential challenges faced by children and adolescents with ADHD.

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