Project PHoENIX: Towards a Methodological Framework for Participatory, Human-centered, Equitable, Neurodiverse, Inclusive, Extended Reality

• In Event: D&D- Project PHoENIX: Towards a Methodological Framework for Participatory, Human-centered, Equitable, Neurodiverse, Inclusive, Extended Reality

Short Description

In this session, we describe our efforts towards developing a framework of novel methods and processes for supporting co-design and collaborative research with autistic stakeholders in extended reality. The developed technology systems, design methods, and research processes are actively being used to facilitate a multi-site focus group research study, entitled Project PhoENIX (Participatory, Human-centered, Equitable, Neurodiverse, Inclusive, Extended Reality). Preliminary results suggest that empathetic, inclusive design and research can promote highly relevant learning experiences and can lead to discovery of novel directions for research that have not been undertaken in this research area to-date.

Authors

• Presenter: Matthew Schmidt, University of Florida

• Presenter: Jie (Jennifer) Lu, University of Florida

• Presenter: Rui (Tammy) Huang, College of Education, University of Florida

• Presenter: Minyoung Lee, University of Florida

• Presenter: Marc-Sonley Francois, University of Florida

• Contributor: Li Cheng, University of Florida

• Presenter: Yueqi Weng, University of Florida