sound

Voices of people talking turned out to be a series of "babling" sounds to Autistic individuals. They hear people speaking clearly, yet couldn't comprehend the meaning of those sentences.

"Sensory overload" makes people stop seeing or hearing. Under these circumstances, information couldn’t enter the brain and therefore makes learning impossible.

Children with hearing impairments hear sounds like through a cell phone with poor signal, which means the connection is from time to time weak or strong, or even without connection.

If people talk too fast, autistic individuals perceive the sounds as meaningless and under this circumstances, they hear only vowels.

Put yourself in their shoes, what if you hear only part of the words, or the vowels, or specific intonations, what you would (or wouldn't) do? How many important information would be lost per day, per hour and per minute?

layout

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Cover test

poster

layout

Sensory Overload

Sounds Overload

By mixing various sounds, present how autitic patients couldn't adjust or control their hearing.

**Different sounds filled the air at school, such as sounds of teachers lecturing, fans rotating, classmates chatting, people walking, teachers writing on the blackboard and chairs shaking.

Normally we would pay attention to only one sound, yet however, for autistic students, every single sound is at its highest volume like the adjuster is broken.
**Audiences could adjust the volume of sounds vs only "on" and "off" without any adjustment to sounds.

聲音過載
用多種聲音的混合呈現自閉症患者的聽覺無法控制或調節的情形

**在學校生活中，四處充斥著不同的聲音，例如教師講課聲，風扇旋轉聲，同學交談聲，走路聲，教師書寫黑板的聲音，不斷搖晃椅子的聲音等等
在一般正常情況下，我們的注意力指會放在一種聲音上面，但對自閉症來說，他們就像失去調節音量控制的開關一樣，所有的聲音都停留在最大聲。
**讓觀眾可以調整各種聲音音量vs聲音只有開與關，無法調節大小聲。

language expression

visual

Some children see the world as through a kaleidoscope: flat, broken pieces and without depth perception. Others see the world as through narrow tube, and they see only the view of that small circle, without the surrounding views.

Patients with autism could neglect peripheral vision and focus on the central vision for a long period of time. People who are over-sensitiveto vision see the world as if through 2 toilet paper rolls. The vision that is framed by the rolls is like a kaleidoscope, only the vision close to the center is clear enough. Therefore, to see the world at a larger picture, they would lean their heads to one side, to move the objects out of their vision.

Visual processing disorderis a common symptom among autistic children. This will lead to the lack of eye contact, staring at the objects or to see via peripheral vision. Vision of people with visual processing disorder might not be able to "stay still," which means they often scan around to receive visual information and to obtain the meaning of the world around them.

Children could stare at the flickering lights but have difficulties walk up or down the stairs due to the distortion of their depth perception. Most children loves to play around with the escalator, however, children with poor vision are afraid of taking the escalator.Words on the paper apears to be shaking or moving around causes reading disorder in some chidlren.

Some of the autistic patients find it hard to stand the fluorescent lights. They could see the flash of fluorescent lights, and thus the office feels like disco for them.

Summary of interviews 4

Q: What are the behaviors of autistic children that others students need to realize?

A: 

1. Sensory sensitivity is different with others.

2. Insistent repetition. Insist on their own interests or objects, for instance, they only want to discuss subjects in which they’re interested such as anime or cars. They insist on and repeat to play with their favorite toys or objects.

3. Communicate with autistic children more directly, avoid using hints or metaphors.
4. They cannot realize other people's feelings and they didn’t intend to ignore it.
5. Lack of eye contact when talking to other people. Cannot observe other people's facial expression and cannot realize the meaning of body language.
6. No verbal expressions and don’t know how to interact with other people or ask for help. But it doesn't mean that they're indifferent. 



1.感官刺激敏感度與別人很不一樣。

2.會有一些固著行為，執著於自己的興趣或物品,例如只想討論他有興趣的話題：動漫,車輛…會堅持且反覆把玩自己喜歡的玩具或物品。

3.以更直接的方式和自閉症小孩溝通，避免使用暗示，隱喻…等方式。
4.不是故意的但無法體會別人的感受
5.說話時缺乏目光接觸，不會察言觀色，無法了解別人的肢體語言或臉上表情代表的意義。
6.沒有口語表現，不知道如何與人互動或求助，但不表示他們很孤僻冷漠。

Cover test

Guide dog (APP & Picture book)

APP + picture book

Strengths:

1. Hand-painting style, colorful, easy for children to read and appealing to children.

2. Presented via stories, and to understand the guidedogs through reading. In this way, the boring contents could be presented in a more interesting form.

3. Images more than words, suitable for children development.

**Could use the story-telling way to attract the audience, but the teenagers might find the playful hand-painting illustrations too childish.

**Drawing styles that attract the teenagers.


優點:
1.手繪風格，色彩鮮艷明亮，易於兒童閱讀，容易吸引兒童的注意力
2.用故事的方式呈現，透過故事閱讀了解導盲犬主題，將原本生硬枯燥的內容轉換形式呈現
3.圖像多於文字，符合兒童發展需求

**可仿效其以故事呈現的方式吸引讀者
但過於活潑可愛的手繪插畫風格可能會讓青少年覺得幼稚
**較能吸引青少年的圖像風格是??



http://flipermag.com/2014/06/15/luffy-lula/

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【Dear Diary】繪本結合手機 APP，徐愛琳的 Luffy and Lula ！

By Grace C. | 2014/06/150 則迴響

Luffy and Lula 是一本關於導盲犬教育的手機互動繪本，是由今年參加新一代，來自雲林科技大學數位媒體設計系的徐愛琳(以下簡稱愛琳)所設計的作品，由於她的作品相當特別，讓我駐足許久(驚訝許久)，於是決定要來 訪 問 她 ！

哈囉，好久不見呀！不免俗的開場白，請你先來介紹一下你的作品吧！

愛琳：哈哈，真的好久不見！我的作品是 “Luffy and Lula"，這是一本關於導盲犬教育的手機互動繪本，為什麼說是互動繪本呢？因為我的繪本有結合 QRcode ，只要用手機掃描再放置到繪本上，就能和我的繪本互動唷！而這項作品是想結合手機 APP 的互動達到教育宣導的效果，在故事當中我把導盲犬在台灣遇到的問題融入到繪本當中，希望大人和小孩能藉由我的繪本更了解導盲犬。

那你稍為講一下故事內容吧！

愛琳：好啊好啊！Luffy 是一個很可愛的小男孩，雖然他的眼睛從小就失去探索這世界的功能，但他有著一隻撫慰人心的導盲犬 Lula。Luffy 和 Lula 一起去探險，尋找一朵漂亮的鮮花，途中有遇到些挫折，但他們仍堅持下去，最後也成功的找到那朵美麗的花朵。