ToGather, an interactive website for the stakeholders of school inclusion of children with ASD: an iterative design including user testing
TousEnsemble, un site internet interactif pour les parties prenantes de l'inclusion scolaire de jeunes avec TSA : une conception itérative incluant des tests utilisateurs
Résumé
School inclusion of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) represents a challenge for
all parties involved (family, school and out-of-school actors such as medico-social
professionals). To the best of our knowledge, existing tools focus either on the pupil, or the
relationships between two parties, always including parents. Considering a systemic approach
and knowing that collaboration among stakeholders of school inclusion allows the latter to
succeed, we decided to create a tool to enhance and facilitate communication and information
sharing among them. For a better usability and to ensure satisfaction of the need expressed by
those stakeholders, we used participatory design to create the web-based app ToGather. We
used (fictitious) realistic cases to create scenarios that contain tasks to do on the web
application, adapted to each participant role (parent, teacher and external actors). We used
objective (interaction annotations, website navigation inspection) and subjective
(questionnaires) measures to assess the design of ToGather, with regards to usability, user
experience, cognitive load and elicited self-determination. Results indicated that ToGather was
very usable, with an excellent user experience, and a relatively low cognitive demand. Some
design mistakes have been identified and corrected for the enhanced final release.