Developing Usable Software Applications for Users with Autism: User Analysis, User Interface Design Patterns and Interface Components

Human Factors have a huge impact on usability and user acceptance of a software. For this reason, knowing the user's characteristics is essential in the software development life cycle. This is a particular challenge for users with Autism, since the nature of the affliction makes each person unique. Adaptive Interfaces can be implemented to solve the usability problem for those cases, but first we need to define what characteristics to consider and the adaptations. In this paper we present the initial experimentation of a larger study of trying to determine a user model and interaction model for Adaptive Interfaces for persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder based on Executive Function measurements.