About Pictogram Room
About Pictogram Room
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Pictogram Room is a fun and educational software designed to promote body awareness, joint attention, and imitation in children and young people on the autism spectrum. It uses augmented reality technology to create a mirror in which the child sees themselves reflected, along with a series of augmented graphics and sound effects that draw their attention to different parts of their body.Â
Through these elements, a pedagogical approach is developed that first teaches the other parts of the body schema, and then progresses to postures, pointing gestures, and delayed and simultaneous postural imitation. Additionally, a series of experimental exercises is offered to work on other concepts using objects.
What's new in the 2026 version?
What's new in the 2026 version?
This new version is the one used in recent studies and works with a much more advanced 3D camera, allowing for a larger playing area and a much smoother and more robust body-tracking system. Furthermore, all the games have been redesigned to optimize their performance, with some games being replaced by new ones. Finally, this version includes a new block called "objects," offered experimentally, which allows for working with the concept of object permanence and a false belief attribution task.
What is the story behind Pictogram Room?
It all began when a group of researchers at IRTIC created a prototype, which they presented at the World Autism Congress in South Africa in 2006. That prototype required costly and uncomfortable equipment, but it served as a demonstrator to illustrate the potential of this technology for autism. In the following years, this group of researchers worked closely with other universities, educational centres, and autism associations to develop a version that was released in 2011. This version worked with two different versions of the Microsoft Kinect sensor and was available in multiple languages, with more than nine thousand users worldwide. For the last five years, IRTIC researchers, in collaboration with the Orange Foundation, have continued working on the development and testing of a new version that takes advantage of the possibilities offered by the latest body-tracking technologies.
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