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- Crescendo: Routine Learning App for Children with Autism Spectrum DisordersPublication . Cesário, Vanessa; Rodrigues, Joel; Li, Helen; Wu, Iris; Nisi, ValentinaCrescendo is an ongoing project aimed to provide children with High Functioning Autism, their teachers and carers with a communication tool that bridges them. Crescendo guides carers in teaching and immersing their child in a virtual environment that mimics the real world, helping them to make sense of it and interact with objects and places in order to become self-reliant in atomized, step-by-step routines. Crescendo is a two-sided app design, one for carers and another for children. It provides both with tool for monitoring and incremental step-by-step learning.
- Children's books: Paper VS Digital, What Do They Prefer?Publication . Cesário, Vanessa; Freitas, Paulo; Pimentel, Diana; Nisi, ValentinaIn this paper we present a study through which we intended to understand children’s preference towards book formats, in particular digital or paper ones. To accomplish this, we created an original story (Ritinha) illustrated by two children. The traditional book format was composed by static images and text. The digital format had animated images, hyperlinks to navigate to different parts of the story and static text complemented by an audio narrative. We conducted a field study with 105 children in order to observe in which format children would prefer to read a book: if in paper or in digital format. The method used to accomplish this task was direct observation.