Publications

Let’s join the toy inventors: designing an inclusive collaborative play toy with and for autistic children

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Publication Date: 22, February, 2025 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab, Nahwan Al Aswadi, Shaza Khattab, Khalil Ahmad, Joselia Neves, Marwa Qaraqe, Mariam Bahameish, Maria Jiménez-Andrés, Achraf Othman, Dena Al-Thani Engaging autistic children in collaborative activities offers unique opportunities, especially when creating tools that facilitate social interaction while accommodating their diverse needs. Through a three-phase co-design […]

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Implementing a multi-sensory “Bag-of-stuff” in co-design sessions with autistic and non-autistic children

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Publication Date: July, 2024 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab, Shaza Khattab, Nahwan Al Aswadi, Mariam Bahameish, Marwa Qaraqe, Maria Jimenez Andres, Joselia Neves, Achraf Othman, Dena Al-Thani This study explores the creation and observation of interactions between autistic and non-autistic children with a custom-designed, multi-sensory “Bag-of-stuff” during co-design sessions of a collaborative play toy. The

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Collaborative play for autistic children: A systematic literature review

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Publication Date: March 01, 2024 By: Shaza Khatab, Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab, Achraf Othman, Dena Al-Thani This paper presents a systematic literature review investigating collaborative play for autistic children. Autistic children are often faced with challenges related to social interaction, communication, and interest during play. This underscores the importance of exploring collaborative play as a

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The what, where, who, why, which, and how of collaborative play involving autistic children in educational context: a contextual inquiry

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Publication Date: January 29, 2024 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab; Shaza Khattab ; Nahwan Al Aswadi ; Joselia Neves; Marwa Qaraqe; Achraf Othman; Noora Alsulaiti ; Dena Al-Thani Introduction: In educational settings, autistic children often encounter barriers to engaging in collaborative play. Notably, play is an important component of a child’s development, and its pedagogical significance

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Co-design of Technology Involving Autistic Children: A Systematic Literature Review

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Publication Date: October 12, 2023 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab; Bilikis Banire ; Joselia Neves; Marwa Qaraqe; Achraf Othman; Dena Al-Thani A co-design process involving autistic children can provide a substantial benefit and optimal utilization of technologies to an off-the-shelf design-based one. Having a voice and making a contribution plays a major role in the

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Toward a Toolkit for Co-designing Collaborative Play Tool with and for Autistic Children

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Publication Date: July 09, 2023 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab; Dena Al-Thani; Joselia Neves; Nahwan Al Aswadi; Shaza Khatab The prevalence of autism is currently on the rise around the world. Autism is often associated with challenges in social communication, which could impact children’s ability to play and integrate with their surroundings. Despite this, there

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Matrix approach to solve polynomial equations

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Publication Date: May, 2023 By: Samir Brahim Belhaouari ; Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab ; Zarina Oflaz Polynomials are widely employed to represent numbers derived from mathematicaloperations in nearly all areas of mathematics. The ability to factor polynomials entirelyinto linear components allows for a wide range of problem simplifications. This paperpresents and demonstrates a novel, straightforward

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En Route to Co-designing Inclusive Play With and For Autistic Children

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Publication Date: December 30, 2022 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab ; Dr. Dena Al-Thani Recent research has discussed co-designing with autistic children in several settings. However, none of the these studies had investigated the inclusive play field. In this PhD work, we aim to co-design and evaluate a tool to promote inclusive, collaborative play with

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Poster: Co-Designing inclusive play with and for autistic children

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Publication Date: September 27, 2022 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab ; Dr. Dena Al-Thani ; Nahwan Al Aswadi ; Shaza Khatab ; Dr. Joselia Neves This poster was presented at the 2nd International Conference on Visualization and Computer-Human Interaction 2022 (VisCHI). The number of autistic children worldwide is recently increasing and often they exhibit difficulties

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Multisensory Collaborative Play: Online Resources for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Publication Date: June 26, 2022 By: Mohamad Hassan Fadi Hijab ; Bilikis Banire ; Dena Al-Thani Switching from face-to-face learning to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging for students especially for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parents and caregivers of children with ASD struggle when adjusting to the new situation due

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