Parés, Narcís, 1966-Masri, Paulvan Wolferen, GerardCreed, Chris2016-03-142016-03-142005Parés N, Masri P, Van Wolferen G, Creed C. Achieving dialogue with children with severe autism in an adaptive multisensory interaction: the MEDIATE project. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2005;11(6):734-743. DOI 10.1109/TVCG.2005.881077-2626http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25985This paper presents an adaptive physical environment that allows children with severe autism to successfully interact with/nmultimodal stimuli, giving them a sense of control of the interaction and, hence, providing them with a sense of agency. This has been/nan extremely important effort for two main reasons: 1) This user group cannot be typified, hence making the design of an interactive/nsystem to fit all the spectrum of individuals a very complex task; 2) each individual PAS (Person on the Autistic Spectrum) user must be/nable to develop himself within the environment according to his own capacities and potentiality. Qualitative evaluation by psychologists/nshows very good results and sketches an encouraging future for research on these environments.application/pdfeng© 2005 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works./nThe final published article can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1512023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2005.88Artificial Augmented and virtual realitiesInteraction stylesAssistive technologies for persons with disabilitiesPsychologyMetadatainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess