Author(s)

Nesrine Mezhoudi¹, Hina Gull¹, Mohammed A. Alqahtani¹, Nahla El-Haggar², Moez Ayachi³

¹Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Computer Science and IT, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univer-sity, P. O. Box 1982, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
²Department of Computer Science, Community College, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
³General Study Department, Dammam College of Technology, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Recent advances in technology provide countless innovative solutions and applications for supporting children with autism in educational learning and personal development. This result is an increasingly recognized need to deal with new and unexpected risks and issues such as social exclusion. Diverse advanced technologies were aimed to support learning activity from different perspectives with multiple strategies. However, despite the significant amount of work and explored technology, several common risks pop up due to user’s vulnerability to diverse risks such as negative screen effects. Accordingly, there is still plenty of room for improvement in this regard. To address these vulnerabilities and gaps, this paper aims at identifying issues and challenges improving the technology applied for Autism Spectrum Disorders and autistics dedicated applications. It put forward requirements and design decisions supporting safe autistic dedicated interaction with regards to ISO31000 risk management process.

Autism Spectrum Disorders, Supportive Technology, Risk-Awareness, ISO31000, IT Risks

Mezhoudi, N. , Gull, H. , Alqahtani, M. , El-Haggar, N. and Ayachi, M. (2019) Toward Safe and Usable Technologies for Autistic: Risks Identification and Mitigation Guidelines. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 9, 26-44. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2019.91004.