Social Behavior Mapping - Connecting Behavior, Emotions and Consequences Across the Day

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Musa GJ, Chiang P-H, Sylk T, Bavley R, Keating W, Lakew B, et al. Use of GIS mapping as a public health tool-from cholera to cancer. Health Serv Insights. 2013;6:111–6. What’s happening around us influences our thoughts, feelings, and responses. Social Situation Mapping (formerly Social Behavior Mapping), a core teaching framework within the Social Thinking® Methodology, uses visual templates to encourage learners to engage social observation for figuring out what to do and say (or not do and say) based on a particular situation: where we are, who is present, and what is happening. The maps also outline a fundamental teaching framework we call the Social Emotional Chain Reaction, which shows how we all impact one another when sharing space. The maps are meant to be taught from the perspective of the student or client to provide options for what to do or say in common situations. We encourage educators, therapists, and parents to jointly generate unique maps alongside the student or client based on their individual goals. We start by teaching individuals to observe others across different situations and identify the expected and unexpected behavior they notice and the impact this has on others’ thoughts, emotions, reactions and responses. Over time, we gradually extend the learning to teach the full Social-Emotional Chain Reaction by having individuals observe their own behavior, recognize how it impacts others, and connect how others’ responses impact how they themselves think and feel. Social Behavior Mapping makes the complicated process of how we all affect one another’s thoughts, feelings, and actions visual and concrete! The Book Wang J, Schwering A. The accuracy of sketched spatial relations: how cognitive errors affect sketch representation. Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration. 2009. p. 40.

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Nykiforuk CIJ, Flaman LM. Geographic information systems (GIS) for health promotion and public health: a review. Health Promot Pract. 2011;12(1):63–73. For social mapping: Use the results from the participatory ranking process to make a base map of the area under analysis. Use codes (symbols) to represent relative indicators (or ranking) of the households in the area under analysis. This can be used to monitor the households' wellbeing over time and evaluate how a project affects different social groups. Loebach JE, Gilliland JA. Free range kids? Using GPS-derived activity spaces to examine children’s neighborhood activity and mobility. Environ Behav. 2016;48(3):421–53. Curtis JW, Shiau E, Lowery B, Sloane D, Hennigan K, Curtis A. The prospects and problems of integrating sketch maps with geographic information systems to understand environmental perception: a case study of mapping youth fear in Los Angeles gang neighborhoods. Environ Plan B Plan Des. 2014;41(2):251–71.Nykiforuk CI, Hewes J, Belon AP, Paradis D, Gallagher E, Gokiert R, Bisanz J, Nieuwendyk L. Evaluating child-friendly spaces: insights from a participatory mixed methods study of a municipality’s free-play preschool and space. Cities Health. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2018.1548894. Noorbakhsh-Sabet N, Zand R, Zhang Y, Abedi V. Artificial intelligence transforms the future of health care. Am J Med. 2019;132(7):795–801. Chrisman NR, Cowen DJ, Fisher PF, Goodchild MF, Mark DM. Exploring geographic information systems. In: Geography in America. 1989. p. 353–75.

Social Behavior Mapping - Connecting Behavior, Emotions and

Marušić BG, Marušić D. Behavioural maps and GIS in place evaluation and design. In: Application of geographic information systems.Kwon M-C, Park G, Choi S. Smartwatch user interface implementation using CNN-based gesture pattern recognition. Sensors. 2018;18(9):2997. Try one strategy at a time. It is tempting to overload and try a bunch of strategies at once. They all seem cool, so let’s just try them all. Nope. First off, you will never know which strategy is working. Second, you will confuse your student by incorporatingtoo many concepts. Maps with options to honor neurodivergent choices or strategies. Some options are also inclusive of learning differences and/or disabilities.