UON E-Technology and Autism Study

15/10/2021

Seeking parents of autistic children aged between 5 & 12!
Help University of Newcastle researchers understand how your children use technology and your opinion on social support programs. Interested? http://www.findlab.net.au/autism-and-interactive-technology for more information.

02/08/2021

We are actively recruiting for this study! Click the link to learn more.

Newcastle families! Help researchers at the The University of Newcastle, Australia build a social skills app to support children with a diagnosis of autism.

If you have a child aged 5 – 12 who is on the autism spectrum, we’d like to invite them to help our researchers design and build a game-like iPad app for social skills!
Interested? Visit https://bit.ly/3lnPsfr for more information.

02/02/2021

Why are we conducting this study? People on the autism spectrum often have difficulties with understanding complex facial expressions. To help support better understanding of these facial...

16/01/2021

Check out more about our research below! 👇

Newcastle families! Are you a parent of a primary school aged child? Our researchers are leading a study aimed at designing a game-like app for facial emotion recognition to support social communication difficulties.

We are investigating the different ways autistic and non-autistic children might interpret facial expressions after playing a tablet-based game. The study involves various assessments including characteristics associated with Autism, social development, EEG recordings, and we will record eye movements whilst your child looks at photos of children showing different facial expressions (e.g., happy, angry, neutral).

If you are interested in your child participating in this study, please visit https://tinyurl.com/uonautismstudy for more information and to register.

​Please share this post if you know someone who may be interested in participating.

This study is being conducted by Prof U. Schall, A/Prof C. Loughland, A/Prof L. Campbell, E/Prof F. Henkens, Mr O. Smith and Ms N. Wall. It has been approved by the University’s Human Research Ethics Committee (Approval No H-2018-0441).

20/12/2020

Looking for something different to do these holidays?! We are looking for both autistic and non-autistic children between 5 & 12 to participate!

Calling families with children aged 5 – 12.

Help participate in research to help other children. Researchers at the University of Newcastle are recruiting children for a study that is designing a supportive iPad app for facial emotion recognition for children on the autism spectrum.

Follow the link to learn more about the study and to express your interest https://tinyurl.com/uonautismstudy

01/12/2020

Newcastle families!
Help researchers at The University of Newcastle, Australia build a social skills app to support children with a diagnosis of autism.

If you have a child aged 5 – 12 who is on the autism spectrum, we’d like to invite them to help our researchers design and build a game-like iPad app for social skills!

Interested? Visit https://tinyurl.com/uonautismstudy for more information.

17/11/2020

Researchers at the University of Newcastle are seeking parents who would be willing to have their children take part in a study that is designing an app to support children on the autism spectrum. Follow the link to learn more about the study and to express your interest https://tinyurl.com/uonautismstudy!