Instructional Design and 3D Virtual Worlds: A Focus on Social Abilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Author(s): Laura Fedeli (University of Macerata, Italy)and Valentina Pennazio (University of Macerata, Italy)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Teaching With Virtual Environments and AI
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gianni Panconesi (Esplica, Italy)and Maria Guida (National Institute for Documentation, Innovation, and Educational Research, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7638-0.ch019

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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Starting from the analysis of the typical difficulties of the condition of autism spectrum syndrome and the literature relating to the effectiveness of the use of virtual worlds, the chapter presents the design and implementation of social stories within a 3D social virtual world, namely edMondo. The environment was used for a second phase of a piloting of a research project about the development of social abilities in children with ASD and involve the use of social scenarios thanks to the interaction with a robot avatar.

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