User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) Design for Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Color Based Emotion Detection System: A Review

Technology devices, such as smartphone, have become a part of communication skills development in objective to help in understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Emotion-learning applications that are available in smartphones and tablets help to assist individuals with ASD and their guardians and caregivers in their learning and social skills. Recent studies show that user interface / user experience (UI/UX) is an important part of the smartphone application design. Differences in application functions and design guidelines are reviewed and compare to recognize how individuals with ASD express their emotion and learning experience to their guardians. Besides that, human emotions are also associated with colors. This gives positive and negative perception in differentiating emotions. Previous studies found that human basic emotions are associated with certain colors, for example angry (red), sad (blue), happy (yellow), disgust (green), fear (purple) and joyful (orange). Meanwhile, some other colors would reflect more complex emotions, such as boredom (gray), innocence (white) and mourn (black). This paper discusses related literature review on this topic.