Print Email Facebook Twitter Fuzzy Bird Helps Me Calm Down and Connect Title Fuzzy Bird Helps Me Calm Down and Connect: Touch with Restraint in an Interactive Object for Children with Autism Author Boess, S.U. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design) Smoorenburg, Astrid (Student TU Delft) Kim, Minsung (Student TU Delft) Rijken, Max (Student TU Delft) Latcham, T.R. (Student TU Delft) Kelder, Sophie (Student TU Delft) Contributor Bruns Alonso, M. (editor) Ozcan, E. (editor) Date 2017 Abstract This paper explores the nascent concept of touch with restraint in the design of an interactive object. The design was developed to support children on the autism spectrum in social interaction and to facilitate a feeling of social connectedness. Throughout a constructive design case, the desired nature and interaction style of this interactive object emerged. An object that is characterized by touch with restraint facilitates adoption as a transitional object and mirrors passively and minimally the actions of a user. The design concept and prototype Fuzzy Bird showed the effectiveness of the concept in a user test. This strong concept contributes to the debate of how we come to live with interactive technologies, by drawing attention to the possibility of self-imposing limits on how much interactive technologies do and being respectful toward the human interactions they help facilitate. Subject touch with restraintautismstrong conceptconstructive design research To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:da4dac77-d6d6-46fa-90ec-1153714c8974 DOI https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.71132 Publisher Intech ISBN 978-953-51-3587-6 Source Proceedings of the Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement- Sense and Sensitivity, DeSForM 2017: Sense and Sensitivity, DeSForM 2017 Event Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement-Sense and Sensitivity ,DeSForM 2017, 2017-10-17 → 2017-10-20, Delft/Eindhoven, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 S.U. Boess, Astrid Smoorenburg, Minsung Kim, Max Rijken, T.R. Latcham, Sophie Kelder Files PDF 57100.pdf 2.27 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:da4dac77-d6d6-46fa-90ec-1153714c8974/datastream/OBJ/view