TY - GEN
T1 - Quality of the built environment from the point of view of people with autism spectrum disorder
AU - Bugno-Janik, Agnieszka
AU - Bielak-Zasadzka, Maria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The features of the built environment that pose obstacles to people with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Asperger Syndrome have been evaluated in recent times to a certain degree, however, the awareness of these problems are still not common among architects. An effective way that could change the social awareness seems to be the dissemination of direct personal experience of contact with people that have a different perception and response to the built environment. Such contact can evoke the emotional reaction of sympathy and desire to understand their specific problems, which should entail a permanent change in the awareness of those involved. In view of the above a participatory action research experiment has been launched to enable students of architecture to investigate selected problems of the design of the environment with teenagers with ASD/AS, and, at the same time, assist them in their direct experience of space.
AB - The features of the built environment that pose obstacles to people with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Asperger Syndrome have been evaluated in recent times to a certain degree, however, the awareness of these problems are still not common among architects. An effective way that could change the social awareness seems to be the dissemination of direct personal experience of contact with people that have a different perception and response to the built environment. Such contact can evoke the emotional reaction of sympathy and desire to understand their specific problems, which should entail a permanent change in the awareness of those involved. In view of the above a participatory action research experiment has been launched to enable students of architecture to investigate selected problems of the design of the environment with teenagers with ASD/AS, and, at the same time, assist them in their direct experience of space.
KW - Asperger syndrome
KW - Autism spectrum disorder
KW - Built environment features
KW - Participatory action research
KW - Quality of space
KW - Users’ needs
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85049678442
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94199-8_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049678442
SN - 9783319941981
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 68
EP - 78
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure - Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, 2018
A2 - Falcao, Christianne
A2 - Charytonowicz, Jerzy
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, 2018
Y2 - 21 July 2018 through 25 July 2018
ER -