A Serious Videogame to Support Emotional Awareness of People with Down Syndrome

Lara, Marisela Hernández; Caro, Karina; Martínez-García, Ana I.

doi:10.1145/3311927.3325303

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“…Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that Reference [ 43 ], with a group of persons with Down syndrome from 15 to 36 years old, showed how they designed the Emotion4Down video game, which is a serious game that supports the emotional awareness in this population. This was also the case of [ 46 ], which included persons aged between 16 and 60 years. Nevertheless, these authors analyzed the effectiveness of an app for improving motivation for physical activity and, through it, psychological health, self-efficacy in activities, and social support.…”

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confidence: 94%

Serious Games for Executive Functions Training for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Overview

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Gimeno-Santos

Zorrilla

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(1) Background: Throughout the history of medical and psychology practice, specialists have worked to improve the quality of treatment and rehabilitation, which has led to the emergence of concepts such as serious games. These tools focus on different areas of intervention procedures, one of which is to help people with intellectual disability (ID). Individuals with ID have problems with executive functions (EFs), which are related to adaptive functioning. Recent studies showed that serious games positively impact cognitive, social, and communication skills in people with ID. The purpose of this study is to analyze the solutions that have been found in EF training for adults with ID in recent years, evaluating them with a number of key parameters and identifying the features and possible problems in the further development of our system. (2) Methods: A review was conducted starting with 573 articles in English related to serious games and selected from studies that had been published since 2015. Finally, 10 were examined in detail as they focused on EFs in adults with ID. They were searched in seven major databases (“Association for Computing Machinery” (ACM), IEEE Xplore database, DBLP computer science bibliography, Google Scholar, PubMed, SCOPUS, and PsycInfo). (3) Results: It was determined that the most frequent EFs referred to in the studies analyzed were planning and decision-making, followed by working memory and social cognition, behavioral regulation, flexibility, and inhibition capacity. The basic approach to the creation of support systems was also analyzed in terms of technical and program execution. The trend results’ analysis evidenced improvements in EFs, even though they were not significant. This comprehensive technique enabled the identification of the main features and aspects to be taken into account for further development of our system.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Serious Games for Executive Functions Training for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Overview

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Zorrilla

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“…Cognition accounted for 12 papers including games for tongue training [109], talking and reading [110,111], language [112], and memory [92,97,113,114]. We also found use of avatars to support emotions [89,115]. Others included comparison of traditional therapy versus Virtual Reality based therapy on performance of children with Down Syndrome [116], and Reflex as a customizable and affordable tool that supported multiple cognitive abilities [94].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There were 4 papers in our corpus with technology support for improving social skills, typically emotions. Training for correct recognition of emotions was provided first through avatars [89,90,115] which incorporates the fun element for children and to sustain their attention for a longer duration than in a typical scenario. One paper attempted to manage behavioural issues observed in SEN children by observing behavioural issues more natural to ASD children with one incident with DS [84].…”

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Technology-enhanced support for children with Down Syndrome: A systematic literature review

Shahid

Law

Verdezoto

2022

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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“…To generalize developing emotions, they are projected to players through animated characters, real people and photographs of the video game players themselves [8,51]. 4.6.…”

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“…On the other hand, nowadays, ICTS promotes the development of hardware and software for digital games and particularly video games, that pique Down syndrome children's interest, focus their attention and motivate them, through the variety of audio-visual stimuli, to develop motor and literacy skills [8], designed exclusively based on their own needs and adapted to their own learning strengths and limitations [9]. Additionally, research has shown that virtual reality video games, with educational content, can enhance cognitive skills and motor coordination, as children move their hands on the screen to perform the interactive and interesting game activities.…”

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Digital Games for Down Syndrome Children’s Language and Cognitive Development

Karagianni

Drigas

2022

TSSJ

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Down syndrome is considered to be one of the most prevalent genetic causes of intellectual disability, derived from chromosomal disorder, which accounts for dysfunctions in many organs and has a characteristic phenotype, which consists of physical and behavioral features. Many studies have shown that language is one of the most impaired areas of function in Down syndrome and perhaps, the highest barrier for their substantial inclusion into formal education and community. Τhe aim of this paper is to investigate the specific features of this linguistic phenotype, presenting the strengths and weaknesses of their language, as well as the factors that contribute to their formation, compared to normally developing children. In addition, it scopes to highlight the role of educational mobile apps, as innovative and interactive tools for the developmental learning of Down syndrome children. The results of the research indicate that their language goes through the same, with typical development sequences, but progressively erases a slowing trajectory and results in lower performance. However, the use of digital games, especially virtual reality video games, can, significantly, improve their cognitive and fine mobile functioning and also the acquisition of literacy, language and math skills, in order to upgrade their quality of life.

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A Serious Videogame to Support Emotional Awareness of People with Down Syndrome

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Serious Games for Executive Functions Training for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Overview

Serious Games for Executive Functions Training for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Overview

Technology-enhanced support for children with Down Syndrome: A systematic literature review

Digital Games for Down Syndrome Children’s Language and Cognitive Development

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