COSPATIAL

Communication and Social Participation: collaborative Technologies for interaction And Learning

Coordinatore	FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER    more  Organization address address: Via Sommarive 18 city: Povo - Trento postcode: 38123 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Umberto Cognome: Silvestri Email: send email Telefono: +39 0461 314375 Fax: +39 0461 302040
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	2˙158˙632 €
EC contributo	1˙649˙591 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2007-3
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-02-01   -   2012-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER  Organization address address: Via Sommarive 18 city: Povo - Trento postcode: 38123 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Umberto Cognome: Silvestri Email: send email Telefono: +39 0461 314375 Fax: +39 0461 302040	IT (Povo - Trento)	coordinator	0.00
2	BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS city: RAMAT GAN postcode: 52900 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Isser Cognome: Peer Email: send email Telefono: +972 3 5318404 Fax: +972 3 6353277	IL (RAMAT GAN)	participant	0.00
3	THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM  Organization address address: University Park city: NOTTINGHAM postcode: NG7 2RD contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paul Cognome: Cartledge Email: send email Telefono: +44 115 951 5679 Fax: +44 115 951 3633	UK (NOTTINGHAM)	participant	0.00
4	UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA  Organization address address: Mount Carmel, Abba Khoushi Blvd. city: HAIFA postcode: 31905 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Suzan Cognome: Aminpour Email: send email Telefono: +972 4 8240549 Fax: +972 4 8288035	IL (HAIFA)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON  Organization address address: Highfield city: SOUTHAMPTON postcode: SO17 1BJ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Yan Cognome: Qiao Email: send email Telefono: +44 2380593907 Fax: +44 2380596841	UK (SOUTHAMPTON)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Social competence is a multidimensional concept that reflects a child's capacity to integrate behavioural, cognitive and affective skills in order to adapt flexibly to diverse social contexts andndemands. Social competences affect a child's ability to learn in formal and informal educationalnsettings, and to interact appropriately with other children. COSPATIAL aims at providing anthorough investigation and further development of technologies aimed at learning these socialnskills by children who are typically developing and those with autism. We adopt the Cognitive-nBehavioral Therapy (CBT) model to describe the complexity of social competence constructs as anmultidimensional framework which assumes reciprocity between the ways individuals behave innsocial situations. Two categories of technologies for collaborative interaction that havendemonstrated the potential to be both feasible and effective for training social skills are targeted:nCollaborative Virtual Environments and Shared Active Surfaces. Specific objectives are (1) tondevelop a framework based on the CBT model that explicitly formulates and illustrates how thenattributes of collaborative technologies can be used to support the acquisition of social skills, (2)nto validate and refine the CBT framework via extensive user studies that entail specific tasks tontest software and hardware systems capable of implementing its salient features, and (3) toninvestigate the ability of collaborative technologies to support the transfer and generalization ofnskills acquired during the specific tested tasks to ability to perform other tasks in the real world.nCOSPATIAL takes inspiration from the Agile approach which posits the need for quicknprototyping by small teams of programmers and designers. We exploit this approach to fosternrapid evaluation through several short cycles of Participatory Design, implementation, andnevaluation of prototypes by involving psychologists and educators.