The use of serious games to help children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn different skills has increased in the recent past. Games, however, have not been exploited to enhance the vocabulary of these children. The serious game design framework (SGDF) and its components provide support throughout the design process, but there are no existing SGDFs that can be used to design serious games for these children to learn vocabulary skills. Therefore, in this research, a SGDF is proposed to overcome the problem of designing serious games for children with ASD. The components of the framework were identified after an extensive review of the literature on ASD and existing SGDFs. The input, process and output model was used as an underlying structure of the framework, and the identified components were logically placed in each phase of the model. The proposed framework was iteratively evaluated through expert reviews with academic experts and researchers working in the area of serious games, as well as game designers. The modified version of the framework was produced based on the comments provided by experts. This modified version was then used in the applicability evaluation of the framework with researchers and game designers. A proposed SGDF was produced based on the comments of experts. The main findings from expert reviews show that the structure, components and details of the proposed framework have been effectively refined. The use of the framework to produce serious game design and the prototype demonstrates its use in real time. The evaluation of the prototype with autistic children shows the improvement in their vocabulary learning before and after using the prototype.

近年来，使用严肃的游戏来帮助自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的孩子学习不同的技能。但是，尚未开发游戏来增强这些孩子的词汇量。严肃的游戏设计框架（SGDF）及其组件在整个设计过程中提供支持，但是没有现有的SGDF可以用来设计严肃的游戏供这些孩子学习词汇技能。因此，在这项研究中，提出了一种SGDF，以克服为ASD儿童设计严肃游戏的问题。在对ASD和现有SGDF的文献进行了广泛回顾之后，才确定了框架的组成部分。输入，过程和输出模型被用作框架的基础结构，并且将识别出的组件逻辑上放置在模型的每个阶段。通过与严肃游戏领域的学术专家和研究人员以及游戏设计师的专家评审，反复评估了所提议的框架。该框架的修订版是根据专家的意见制作的。然后，将此修改版本用于研究人员和游戏设计师对该框架的适用性评估。根据专家的意见，拟定了SGDF。专家审查的主要结果表明，拟议框架的结构，组成部分和细节已得到有效完善。使用该框架可以进行认真的游戏设计，并且原型可以实时演示其用法。对带有自闭症儿童的原型进行的评估表明，在使用原型前后，他们的词汇学习有所改善。