Player, Olly R; Kelly, Merlin; Cho, Youngjun; (2025) MySensory: a Novel Solution for Sound Hyper-Reactivity in Autism. In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Funchal, Portugal. (In press).

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Assistive technologies designed for autistic users often aim to treat the condition through training them to engage or not engage in certain behaviors. This has encompassed the disruption of selfinjurious actions as well as other evidently essential interventions, but it has also expanded into areas such as ’appropriate’ eye contact and other subjective communication forms. However, few technologies serve as prostheses to aid autistic people in challenging areas. Many autistic individuals face sensory processing differences, leading to over-reactions to stimuli such as loud noises, and struggle with Alexithymia which causes difficulty identifying and describing one’s own emotional state. Together, these conditions can cause autistic people to become overwhelmed in certain environments without realizing until it is too late to take actions to prevent extreme distress. This paper introduces a wearable prosthetic designed to address this problem by using reported stress and noise levels to alert users about potentially overwhelming environments.

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