A Gamification Design Framework for Supporting ASD Children Social Skills

Gamification has been one of the promising approaches to engage and motivate user experience. Unfortunately, only several numbers of studies were performed within the context of autism children because the available literatures heavily focus on the general gamification users as to improve the engagement period and user experiences, regardless of specific skills. In this ASD context, special skills can be defined as categories of skills associated with their intervention treatment such as social, speech, reading, writing and any of their daily living skills. This research is concern with a development of gamification design framework for ASD children that able to support and assist their social skills. The design framework begins from early phase to the final phase of process such as analysis, design and evaluation. Based on our systematic literature review findings, the study identified three themes named therapeutic, immersive and personalization. These three elements are included in our proposed design framework as the significant elements to tackle the autistic children's social skills. Our future concern is to validate the proposed gamification design framework with experts such as therapists and gamification experts and to develop gamification prototype using the proposed framework.