Adding value to usability testing
Usability inspection methods
Contextual design: defining customer-centered systems
Contextual design: defining customer-centered systems
Agent aided aircraft maintenance
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Designing interactive paper: lessons from three augmented reality projects
IWAR '98 Proceedings of the international workshop on Augmented reality : placing artificial objects in real scenes: placing artificial objects in real scenes
Is paper safer? The role of paper flight strips in air traffic control
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on interface design for safety-critical interactive systems: when there is no room for user error
Tensions in designing capture technologies for an evidence-based care community
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pervasive Computing and Autism: Assisting Caregivers of Children with Special Needs
IEEE Pervasive Computing
CareLog: a selective archiving tool for behavior management in schools
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
vSked: evaluation of a system to support classroom activities for children with autism
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interactive visual supports for children with autism
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Entity workspace: an evidence file that aids memory, inference, and reading
ISI'06 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Monitoring children's developmental progress using augmented toys and activity recognition
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Automatic assessment of problem behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Multimodal annotation tool for challenging behaviors in people with Autism spectrum disorders
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
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Autism education programs for children collect and use large amounts of behavioral data on each student. Staff use paper almost exclusively to collect these data, despite significant problems they face in tracking student data in situ, filling out data sheets and graphs on a daily basis, and using the sheets in collaborative decision making. We conducted fieldwork to understand data collection and use in the domain of autism education to explain why current technology had not met staff needs. We found that data needs are complex and unstandardized, immediate demands of the job interfere with staff ability to collect in situ data, and existing technology for data collection is inadequate. We also identified opportunities for technology to improve sharing and use of data. We found that data sheets are idiosyncratic and not useful without human mediation; improved communication with parents could benefit children's development; and staff are willing, and even eager, to incorporate technology. These factors explain the continued dependence on paper for data collection in this environment, and reveal opportunities for technology to support data collection and improve use of collected data.