The SAGA-C project is aim to designed a video game to help highly functional young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) improve their social skills, build friendships, and better manage emotions and challenging behaviors.
While technology and AI have brought new insights into autism, therapeutic challenges remain. SAGA-C will addresses key challenges in ASD (diversity of symptoms, difficulties in understanding others, and emotional regulation) by creating a supportive and structured virtual environment tailored to the needs of different users.
The game will be carefully designed with attention to difficulty levels, playtime, and character appearance, ensuring it's inclusive across genders and levels of adaptability. Developed in collaboration with medical experts and a game design specialist from the diaspora, the platform will use behavior modification techniques in a frustration-free setting.
The game is envisioned as an intervention tool to facilitate acquisition of social skills, enhance emotional and behaviour control, and track progress over time.