It is well-known that people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder experience difficulty coping with change. However, the extent to which this applies to small changes in user interface design is not known. Through exposing autistic (n=11) and control (n=10) users to seven controlled, cumulative design changes within an e-calendar appointment creation interface, and systematically recording usability scores, a bespoke comfortability score and qualitative responses, we confirm that the autistic discomfort around change extends to small changes in user interface design, negatively impacting system usability and comfortability scores consistently in the autistic group for some tests. To widen the applicability of our findings for industry use and promote further research in this under-explored yet critical area, we also transform our results into preliminary non-exhaustive design heuristics for reducing negative impacts of interface design changes in autistic users.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Advanced Code Generation ParadigmsResearch Papers at Duke Energy Hall Chair(s): Cyrus Omar University of Michigan | ||
14:00 11mTalk | Interface Design for Autism in an Ever-Updating World Research Papers Pre-print | ||
14:11 22mTalk | HiLDe: Intentional Code Generation via Human-in-the-Loop Decoding Research Papers Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez UCSD, Raven Rothkopf University of California San Diego, Sorin Lerner University of California at San Diego, Nadia Polikarpova University of California at San Diego | ||
14:33 22mTalk | Exploring Direct Instruction and Summary-Mediated Prompting in LLM-Assisted Code Modification Research Papers Ningzhi Tang University of Notre Dame, Emory Smith University of Notre Dame, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University, Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame, Toby Jia-Jun Li University of Notre Dame Pre-print | ||
14:55 22mTalk | A Type Language for Blockly Research Papers | ||
15:17 11mTalk | TreeReader: a hierarchical academic paper reader powered by language models Research Papers Zijian Zhang University of Toronto, Pan Chen University of Toronto, Fangshi Du University of Toronto, Runlong Ye University of Toronto, Oliver Huang University of Toronto, Michael Liut University of Toronto Mississauga, Alán Aspuru-Guzik University of Toronto | ||