NEURODIVERGÊNCIA: UMA REVISÃO DA LITERATURA E AVALIAÇÃO DE APLICATIVOS DESENVOLVIDOS PARA AUXÍLIO DE PESSOAS NEURODIVERGENTES

Abstract

This monograph presents a bibliographic study on neurodiversity, neurodivergence, neurominority, digital accessibility and inclusion. This study was carried out with the aim of better understanding these topics and, based on the collected data, analyzing the accessibility of applications using accessible design guidelines for neurodivergent users, as well as their usability using heuristic sets. To this end, a study was carried out on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Dyslexia, aiming to better understand these groups, as well as their pains and limitations, in order to understand which design resources should be used in digital artifacts that aim to help this community. Therefore, two inclusive digital design guides were chosen, Horcel (2020) and GAIA (2020), through which two selected applications were subjected to an analysis to check the level of adequacy to the design guidelines; as well as two heuristic sets, one being the set of heuristics by Nielsen (1994) and the other the set of heuristics for evaluating interactive systems for children with ASD, by Khowaja and Salim (2015). Finally, it is considered that such methodological steps made it possible to analyze these applications.