Peluqueriatea

AYRNA RESEARCH GROUP

About this app

IMPORTANT: To access the settings of the application and its credits, press and hold the gear icon and the information icon for a few seconds, respectively.

The PeluqueríaTEA application consists of a free non-profit application, without advertising and without purchases, whose intention is to support the task of anticipating the attendance to the hairdresser for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

PeluqueríaTEA can be used with people with different degrees of ASD, but always under the supervision of specialists, parents or guardians and in the exercise of exclusively personal or domestic activities.

This application has been developed by the AYRNA research group (https://www.uco.es/ayrna/) and collaborators, and financed within the project called “Support for tasks in anticipation of the appointment of the hairdresser for children and girls with autism spectrum disorders through an application for mobile devices ”, corresponding to the VI edition of the Galileo Plan for Innovation and Transfer of the University of Córdoba, modality IV, UCO-SOCIAL-INNOVA projects.

PeluqueríaTEA has also had the collaboration of the Asociación Autismo Córdoba (https://www.autismocordoba.org/), located in Córdoba, Spain, and its team of professionals. You can consult the website associated with the project at https://www.uco.es/ayrna/teaprojects/

This project has had the following duration: December 1, 2020 until December 31, 2021, so a priori no subsequent maintenance will take place. Keep in mind that it is a non-profit project, in which the work team has not obtained any economic benefit and is not professionally dedicated to the development and maintenance of applications for mobile devices. The authors of the PeluqueríaTEA application have developed this application in order to support people with ASD in their integration into society, hoping that it will be useful.

The application presents the following functionalities distributed in several modules:

- Module 1, tips: consists of a list of tips for parents, specialists and legal guardians that they can explore with children to encourage the anticipation and participation of people with ASD in the hairdresser.

- Module 2, let's go to the hairdresser: sequence of steps in which the attendance at the hairdresser of a boy or a girl is recreated, according to the option chosen in the configuration module. At the end of the sequence, the day and time of attendance previously entered from the configuration module is remembered.

- Module 3, I choose my hairstyle: presents the possibility of customizing a cut and hair color of a boy or a girl, as well as being able to save and see again up to the last three designs that have been made.

- Module 4, game: contains a game where the person with ASD will have to associate sounds produced by some hairdressing utensils, in such a way that the anticipation of sound stimuli and the objects that produce them will be worked on. This module presents reinforcements against incorrect sound-utensil associations.

- Module 5, configuration: module that should only be accessed by parents, relatives or specialists who work with the person with ASD, although this depends on their grade. To access it, it is necessary to press and hold the gear icon that represents it for a few seconds. Settings will be displayed such as the sex of the person with ASD or the management and history of appointments in the hairdresser with comments associated with each visit.

- Module 6, credits: shows information about the people who have participated in the creation of the application, as well as the financing associated with the project. To access this module it is also necessary to press and hold the information icon that represents it for a few seconds.