A common theme on this blog is an attempt to provide guidance on the things that, as academics, we are meant to know how to do, but on which we rarely receive any explicit training. For today’s June Blog I thought I’d write one of these posts, about designing a small research project. As people…
For today’s June Blog I thought I would share a few reflections on the research process, based on my attempts to indoctrinate / introduce my children to scientific research. We’ve done a few scientific projects over the past few weeks but the one I thought I would talk about is my nine-year-old’s most recent research…
Attentive followers (do I have any of those?) may have noticed I didn’t post a June Blog yesterday so today I’m aiming for a double bill to get back on track^. These are going to be checklists for starting, and ending projects. I’ve got a record, I’m afraid, of sharing my student supervision thoughts in…
Maggi attended the British Psychological Society Cognitive & Developmental Section Joint Conference in Stoke-on-Trent in September 2019. She gave a talk about whether social play is different when autistic children play with digital and non-digital toys. The slides are available here, and the project website is here.
My husband, Ben Fletcher-Watson, is currently studying for a PhD in Drama, exploring the meaning, quality and accessibility of theatre for the very young.
I was delighted to be asked to do a blog for Autism Initiatives: it sums up a lot of what we’re trying to do with Click-East and the AWARE event in September. Have a look!
This blog post is to announce a one-off event being held at the University of Edinburgh in September 2012. The event has secured funding from the University’s Challenge Investment Fund, and it aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who share an interest in providing technology-based solutions to the difficulties faced by people with autism spectrum disorders, and their families and friends.
A final year student at the Edinburgh College of Art, Yuan Kai, has been
working on the Click-East app for some time. Her designs feature in the free version, which is currently available on iTunes, and also on the more extensive verison that we’re trialling at the moment.
During the Click-East project we have engaged in a lot of participatory design and other piloting processes. Participatory design means having the expected end users of a product (in this case an iPad app) contribute to the design process.