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Still not the final proposal (Week 4)
Goal, Objective and Description edited from previous.
FYP1
Project Proposal
Title
Autism Spectrum
Disorder
Abstract
Users
can understand more about Autism Spectrum Disorder through interactive
application that allows user have interaction and played through Autism
person eyes or as a parent that have an Autism child.
Target
Audience
Children,
Young Adult and Adult
Goal
1.
What is the goal of the whole application?
To give awareness based on research about
Autism Spectrum Disorder to users in order to make user be more knowledgeable
on how Autism works and how we could be more understanding.
2.
What is the application trying to solve? (problem statement)
Autism person cannot be recognize by
looking at them. No one “looks” autistic. When a person is autistic, it just
means their brain works differently. Most kids with autism are good at some
things but have to work harder at others like normal kids that maybe well in
sports but is afraid of public speaking. Everyone has things they’re good at,
and things they have to work harder at. One way that brains can be different
is that some people have an autism spectrum disorder.
Normal person
tend to misunderstood autism action like spinning around for a long time,
flapping their arms, jumping up and down a lot, or rocking back and forth.
Those repetitive activities are called stims, and they’re
doing it because it feels good, or it’s relaxing, or its fun, or as a way to
block out too much noise around them. They also tend to have trouble
with facial expressions. Kids with autism won’t know how you’re feeling just
by looking at your face. Also, sometimes their facial expressions won’t match
how they’re actually feeling. Often, if your friend with autism doesn’t seem
to have any expression on her face, it just means she’s still
thinking about something. If you’re not sure how someone is feeling, you need
to ask them.
Individuals with Autism are individuals.
Just like other people are little different, all people with autism are also
different. If you met a kid with red hair who really likes Transformers, you
wouldn’t expect every person with red hair to really like Transformers. It’s
the same thing with autism. Not every autistic person likes the same stuff,
is good at the same things, or has a hard time with the same things. They’re
individuals just like you’re an individual.
This is what the application is trying to
solve. The least that this application can do is to spread the awareness and
contribute to the Autism society. A virtual application that would allow
people to get to know them, perhaps a little bit closer than what the article
or videos about Autism, as users would be able to interact with them and be
them. Virtual awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder could leave people with
an impact on how their see a person who act differently and recognize them as
autistic person.
3. What is the advantage of VR that can
be exploited to enhance project?
This interactive application would allow
users to see the behaviours of the Autism person. Not all people are aware of
this disorder. The possibilities to reduce the misunderstood autistic person
could now be offered with virtual reality applications. The advantages is
also normal people would not be harm if Autistic person is out of control as
user will experience it in virtual. This application intends to give normal
person experience in a virtual reality application that is designed based on
studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
4. Is this project new or has it been
created before? If yes, why are you doing it again?
Documentaries, animated series of social skills for kids, videos and
movie related to Autism have been made, but then again, they’re all
non-interactive. Example movie related to Autism like My Name Is Khan,
Extremely Loud Incredibly Close and Chocolate. However, there are some who
vehemently oppose the portrayal of those with autism in film and television
when it’s not done with complete accuracy.
Applications that have similar
kinds of interaction with other disorder have been made like Stuttering
Awareness Game, but there are still no records of a virtual application that
promote Autism Spectrum Disorder. So this is the reason I’m continuing doing
this projects.
Objectives
·
To explain to users what is Autism
Spectrum Disorder through virtual environment and interaction
·
To teach users how to approach or
recognize Autistic person in virtual environment through interaction
·
To
allow users to see and meet an Autistic person in a virtual environment and
interact with them
Benchmark
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Character
   
·
Environment
  
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Interaction
  
Level 1: It will be about what is Autism,
how it happens, who are affected and if there any cure for it. User will see
the animation and also interaction with pop-up menu.
Level
2: Then users will move on to learn how to approach Autistic person and how
to recognise them. Users will learn the sign of Autism; and understanding
their facial expression and emotions through interaction.
Level
3: After that, users will apply their knowledge to interact correctly with
Autistic person through interaction.
User will be using controller/keyboard and
view through PC screen or Oculus Rift.
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