In the United States, the abuse of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) is at epidemic proportions. However, the reporting of such abuse has been severely lacking. It has been found that individuals with I/DD are more aware of when and how to report abuse when they have received abuse-prevention training. Consequently, in this article we present the design and prototyping of a mobile-computing app calledRecognizethat empowers adults with I/DD to independently learn about abuse. To this end, we first conducted an auto-ethnographicco-designofRecognizewith individuals and self-advocates from the I/DD community. Next, based on the outcomes from the co-design process, we developed threeinitial prototype variantsofRecognizeand performed a preliminary user study with six individuals with I/DD who have experience teaching others with I/DD about abuse. Based on the findings of this preliminary user study, we created aconsolidated prototype of Recognizeand performed a more detailed qualitative user study with 11 individuals with I/DD who represented the eventual users ofRecognize. The participants in this user study found it to be viable for use by individuals with I/DD. We end the article with a discussion of the implications of our findings toward the development of a deployable version ofRecognizeand similar apps.
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