(536)MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH: JOINT PRACTICAL LESSONS IN THE STUDIES OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

摘要

In recent years, most graduates of computer science are working in most areas except the computerscience itself. This highlights the deep nature of interdisciplinary that has the computer science.Therefore almost always computer science professionals must collaborate with other professionalsfrom different areas. However, the training offered in computer science studies lacks thatmultidisciplinary, focusing more on purely technical aspects.The campus, a place where studies of very different nature exist side by side, may constitute anexcellent basis for conducting multidisciplinary training without underestimating higher education rigor.The aim of the universities is to train their students in the skills demanded by businesses andcompanies. According to experts, students need to develop more the skills called generic in which canbe found the interpersonal skills.This chapter presents a good example where computer studies and educational psychology find out acommon ground and realistic working through laboratory practices.Specifically, the work enables to students of computer science education the development ofdiagnosis support systems, with artificial intelligence techniques, that could be used by the specialistsinvolved in the educational field from different perspectives. The applications developed by students ofcomputer science is the creation of a model to aid for the diagnosis of pervasive developmentaldisorders (PDD), sometimes also commonly called autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and to enablecommunication between different professionals. The complexity of this diagnosis, not only by theexclusive characteristics of every person who suffer it but also by the large numbers of variablesinvolved in it, requires a very strong and closed interdisciplinary participation. Moreover, for theenhancement of this software it has been required the creation of a working framework which involvesdoctors and families, as well as those students of computer science and educational psychologyalready mentioned. The final purpose of this diagnostic tool is its applicability in primary schools toincrease early detection and diagnosis of suspicious signs of a conduct standard in the early years ofdevelopment. That would enable the appropriate psychoeducational care for better adaptation to theireducational and social environment.Meanwhile, students of educational psychology incorporate their knowledge to adjust the computerapplication successfully, incorporating it the qualitative and quantitative information needed forverification. As a result of this synergy, a good interdisciplinary teamwork has emerged, closer to thereal world than the university and which all would be enriched. Now is the time to match the needs thatprofessional world requires college students. A world in which is sufficiently demonstrated that theproper evaluation and treatment education requires the participation of different professionals in orderto provide particular views of behaviours to observe, modify and implement strategies for this purpose.In this sense, this work demonstrates that it is possible to intervene in a curricular perspective, in theuniversity, to promote the development of interpersonal skills. It can be shown, in this way, amethodology for interdisciplinary practices design and a guide for monitoring and evaluation.