Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Jun 11;17(6):1359. doi: 10.3390/s17061359.
In this paper, we analyze the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to have a pervasive, feasible and non-stigmatizing form of assistance in their emotional self-regulation, in order to ease certain behavioral issues that undermine their mental health throughout their life. We argue the potential of recent widespread wearables, and more specifically smartwatches, to achieve this goal. Then, a smartwatch system that implements a wide range of self-regulation strategies and infers outburst patterns from physiological signals and movement is presented, along with an authoring tool for smartphones that is to be used by caregivers or family members to create and edit these strategies, in an adaptive way. We conducted an intensive experiment with two individuals with ASD who showed varied, representative behavioral responses to their emotional dysregulation. Both users were able to employ effective, customized emotional self-regulation strategies by means of the system, recovering from the majority of mild stress episodes and temper tantrums experienced in the nine days of experiment in their classroom.
在本文中，我们分析了自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者在情感自我调节方面需要一种普及、可行且无污名化的援助形式，以缓解在他们一生中损害其心理健康的某些行为问题。我们认为，最近广泛使用的可穿戴设备，特别是智能手表，具有实现这一目标的潜力。然后，我们提出了一种智能手表系统，该系统实现了广泛的自我调节策略，并可以根据生理信号和运动推断出爆发模式，同时还提供了一种适用于智能手机的创作工具，以便护理人员或家庭成员使用该工具以自适应的方式创建和编辑这些策略。我们对两名具有 ASD 的个体进行了一项强化实验，他们对情绪失调表现出不同的、具有代表性的行为反应。两名用户都能够通过该系统使用有效的、定制的情绪自我调节策略，从在课堂上进行的九天实验中经历的大多数轻度压力发作和发脾气中恢复过来。
