The KFU has developed an application for training social skills in people with autism

Krympress reports:

Graduate students of the Crimean Federal University. V. I. Vernadsky developed a web application for the setting and monitoring of the fulfillment of behavioral goals and habits for people with autism. Its main goal is to train social skills.

The activati ​​web application we have developed is designed to reduce social anxiety and increase the level of social contacts in people with health characteristics. It helps to strengthen confidence through regular practice and soft support. A person can set any goal, for example, smile at a person on the street five times or perform some physical exercise daily, and go to it, regularly tracking his progress and forming new habits. The application works in a browser, you can go and start training your social skills now! — noted the author of the idea, graduate student of the Department of General Psychology and Psychophysiology of the Crimean Federal University Valentina Berezutskaya.

The project took the fourth place in the IT contest “Unlimited Opportunities” in the “Communication” nomination. The competition is aimed at developing innovative projects that improve people with disabilities and disabilities.

The team of the web application developers also included a graduate student of the Department of Journalism KFU named after V. I. Vernadsky Denis Sechin, who was responsible for the technical implementation, and Dmitry Kosov is a software tester.

The team plans to submit a project for a grant competition of the Start-1 Innovation Promotion Fund for further development of the application.

Link to the application: https://cheerful-toffee-61e561.netlife.app/

Source: KFU press service

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