NUS Envision

NUS Envision is a mobile application with the aim to lighten the discomfort of the social scenarios in daily activities. For students with special needs, activities of daily living can be a challenging and stressful affair. The app aims to help educators to prepare their students for such activities by providing various resources and educational materials.

To familiarise the students to new environments (school, public space, and others), the teachers, teaching assistants, caretakers and even their family members, NUS Envision provides a visual storyboard to communicate the common experience of a social situation through pictorial storytelling. The application shall come bundled with a set of social stories to educate the standard daily activities. With students’ customised needs in mind, personalised visual storyboard can be added by the users. The visual storyboard supports captions in combination with photos or short video clips to create stories of varies length.

To motive students to follow daily routine activities, the application shall gamified these activities. The aim is to promote fun and enjoyment through virtual rewards as well as encouraging reminders.

The application shall provide education resources for parents/caregiver. These resources aims to educate and create awareness about general education. The education resources come in easy-to-read format, filled with visual images and video-clips.