#interaction badges

My latest genius app idea, this time to bring #ActuallyAutistic interaction badges to mobile communication. Heavily inspired by Autscape!

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The app doesn’t actually have a chat function or anything built in. It assumes you already have established communication methods with folks. So maybe I’ll IM on Telegram with Moni, but send tweets to Elsie, and use WhatsApp with Jazzable.

Tapping [prompt] sends a little notification to someone asking them what their current badge colour is. That link only appears if they’ve not updated their badge colour for, let’s say, 36 hours.

Maybe it could be possible to link usernames with contacts in your phone - so tapping a username could take you to their contact card in your phone contacts, and from there you could open the chat with them in WhatsApp or send them a text or call them or whatever you like.

WHYYYYYY?

At our events, we use interaction badges. We recently designed our own set of interaction badges, borrowing heavily from the fine iterative work done by Midwest Furfest and WordCamp Philly. Come Talk To Me A person wearing a green badge is actively seeking interaction. They may have trouble initiating conversations, but it’s okay to come up and start a conversation with them. A white circle on…

Your stims are stupendous; your happy makes me happy

I would talk on the phone for you; please don’t make me

You’re on my red list; let’s get out of here

I want to know everything about you; do you mind if I take notes?

I want to spend time in parallel existence with you; let’s be alone together

Your echolalia is enchanting; let’s back and forth

Dandelions, Tulips, Orchids and Neurological Pluralism

While reading up on the stress model of autism, I came across the Dandelions, Tulips, and Orchids framing via @peripheralminds.

https://twitter.com/peripheralminds/status/1167433339986427904?s=12

https://twitter.com/peripheralminds/status/1167432736530927616?s=12

According to empirical studies and recent theories, people differ substantially in their reactivity or sensitivity to…

https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/740195693512429568

Chapter 11 of NeuroTribes, In Autistic Space, mentions interaction badges (also called color communication badges). These are used at autistic conferences and are showing up at tech, sci-fi, fantasy, comic, and fandom cons. I’ve never been to a conference that uses them, but I rarely go to conferences because they induce extreme sensory

Color Communication Badges at NCD's Berkeley Quarterly Meeting! From ASAN President Ari Ne'eman. 

On a tabled are flyers explaining the green, Yellow, and Red badges, and two rows of the badges with each of the three colors in them. Each color is labeled with both the name of the color and a shape associated with that color. On the other side of the table is more papers, likely agendas for the meeting and the like.