Using ProAut Process to Prototype a Social Story Repository for Autistic People

Social stories represent a rich resource to support the treatment of autistic people, aiming to minimize their stereotyped behaviors and also improve social interaction. However, most of these stories are based on common everyday situations, such as washing hands, taking a shower, among others, that is, they are composed of predefined stories always with the same figures. In this context, this work presents the prototyping of a repository to support the creation of social stories not only statically (predefined stories), but mainly dynamically (customized stories). The user will be able to consult the existing pictures and stories in the repository, as well as include new pictures, including photos of the autistic person and the environments with which he interacts. For this, ProAut was used as a prototyping process, and for which we made an evaluation of its use.