DentAR
DentAR is an Augmented Reality (AR) environment designed to mitigate SPD-related anxiety in dental settings for individuals with ASD. Developed via a participatory design approach with occupational therapists, dentists, and caregivers, DentAR utilized the sensory integration strategy to modify the sensory characteristics of the dental clinic, by employing visual and auditory stimuli to enhance the dental experience for those with SPD.
The "Design Space Catalogue."
Neurodivergent participants co-designing sensory-inclusive dental clinic environments. They redesigned the environment by brainstorming, drawing on the perspectives, and physically transforming the physical model.
Co-design activities during the co-design sessions with Neurodivergent participants.
Part of the Co-design Results for the preferred dental clinic environment. Designed by transforming the physical model.
Publications (Ongoing):
Ge (Serena) Guo and Zhiwen Qiu. 2024. DentAR: Innovating Dental Visits with Sensory Experiences in AR for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650926
Ge (Serena) Guo, Nayeon Kwon, Jingjin Li, Andrea Stevenson Won, Gilly Leshed, and Keith Evan Green. Co-Designing Environment-Based Strategies with Neurodivergent Individuals for Sensory-Inclusive Dental Visit Experiences. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
🏅Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5% of submissions)