Collaborative Design for Job-Seekers with Autism: A Conceptual Framework for Future Research
Sungsoo Ray Hong, Marcos Zampieri, Brittany N. Hand, Vivian Motti,, Dongjun Chung, Ozlem Uzuner

TL;DR
This paper proposes a conceptual framework and guidelines to enhance collaborative design for job-seekers with autism, focusing on communication, employment stages, and group work, integrating interdisciplinary approaches.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework and identifies key research challenges to improve collaborative support for autistic job-seekers.
Findings
Identified three major research challenges in supporting autistic job-seekers.
Reviewed current practices and proposed future design directions.
Suggested interdisciplinary solutions involving AI, health, and accessibility.
Abstract
The success of employment is highly related to a job seeker's capability of communicating and collaborating with others. While leveraging one's network during the job-seeking process is intuitive to the neurotypical, this can be challenging for people with autism. Recent empirical findings have started to show how facilitating collaboration between people with autism and their social surroundings through new design can improve their chances of employment. This work aims to provide actionable guidelines and conceptual frameworks that future researchers and practitioners can apply to improve collaborative design for job-seekers with autism. Built upon the literature on past technological interventions built for supporting job-seekers with autism, we define three major research challenges of (1) communication support, (2) employment stage-wise support, and (3) group work support. For each…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAutism Spectrum Disorder Research · Disability Education and Employment
