This paper addresses the development of the serious video game “Acción Capital”, designed to support the learning of key concepts about entrepreneurship within the Hub Center of the city of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. In the last decades, entrepreneurship has become a social and knowledge strategy for the development of decision making strongly required by future entrepreneurs. The causes of successful entrepreneurship, including planning, market research, and business expansion, continue to be knowledge required by entrepreneurs year after year. According to Romero & Usart [1], serious video games are those video games where entertainment is not the main objective, they are a potential tool to support learning about key concepts of entrepreneurship due to the benefits it brings to the learning process, as well as the improvement of decision-making skills.
We present the development and evaluation of an online learning system for people with developmental disabilities (DD) of all ages in collaboration with Imagine! and Hope Services, two not-forprofit organizations that provide care services to people with DD. The system was implemented as an HTML5-based web application for iPad. It includes activities that aim to support and improve the process through which people with DD of all ages reinforce basic skills such as recognizing numbers, letters, money, shapes, and colors. User evaluations suggest that a system such as ours will be: 1) helpful in supporting people with DD reinforce basic skills, and 2) well-received by users. CCS Concepts • Human-centered computing → Accessibility → Accessibility design and evaluation methods.
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