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arXiv AI By Tingting Xiang, Weihan Jiang, Hrishitva Patel, Haiqi Shen, Tianzhi He, Kyrie Zhou

Making Smart Homes Fit for Autistic Children: Family Work and Monitored Independence

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The article examines how general-purpose smart‑home technologies affect autistic children and their families, using qualitative data from caregiver interviews and social media posts. It finds that families adapt technology outputs, prompts, and interaction channels to support their children, but sensory intensity, communication rules, and opaque operating states can also create barriers. The study highlights the ongoing family work required—translation, configuration, modification, maintenance, and boundary‑setting—and discusses how remote monitoring can provide conditional independence while raising tensions around safety, privacy, and control.

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