Creative Coding for Dance Movement Therapy in Children with Autism

Nicolás Araya, Javier Gomez, Germán Montoro

2024

Abstract

People diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have deficits in social interaction, communication and cognitive development. Children with ASD may also present motor difficulties growing up, which motivates interventions of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) that helps them to develop social skills and integrate in society. Current technological advances have integrated into DMT interventions, enriched with virtual scenarios, projections, sensors and robot partners. These works have positive outcomes in social skills development and motor skills refinement, even though, due to confinement for COVID-19, online DMT has yet to be further explored. We propose a research methodology for the development of a tool that aims to develop self expression for ASD youth, with the creation of an artistic image based on dance and body movements. Our initial study case is Movarte, a web based tool that creates graphic pieces based on body movement and proxemic areas. 15 users evaluated the application, showing positive outcomes in terms of engagement and novelty, though it was not considered so clear and limited in terms of parameter control. Future research will provide more insight to adapt an interface for DMT in self expression for people with ASD.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Araya N., Gomez J. and Montoro G. (2024). Creative Coding for Dance Movement Therapy in Children with Autism. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 761-767. DOI: 10.5220/0012472100003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf24,
author={Nicolás Araya and Javier Gomez and Germán Montoro},
title={Creative Coding for Dance Movement Therapy in Children with Autism},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2024},
pages={761-767},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012472100003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - Creative Coding for Dance Movement Therapy in Children with Autism
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Araya N.
AU - Gomez J.
AU - Montoro G.
PY - 2024
SP - 761
EP - 767
DO - 10.5220/0012472100003657
PB - SciTePress