Introducing the Gamer Information-Control Framework

Andrade, Ronny; Rogerson, Melissa J.; Waycott, Jenny; Baker, Steven; Vetere, Frank

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376211

Cited by 15 publications

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“…The code 'elderly' emerged as I encountered studies on accessibility of game technologies for the elderly. The word 'elderly' was used in said Beckett et al, 2016;Beeston et al, 2018;Bouaine et al, 2020;Brooks, 2017;Brown and Anderson, 2021;Cairns et al, 2019aCairns et al, , 2019bFortes et al, 2017;Garcia and de Almeida Neris, 2020;Granzotto Llagostera, 2019;Kaigo and Okura, 2020;Leite et al, 2019;Merritt, 2017;Thompson and Syrett, 2018;Tyagi et al, 2019;Westin et al, 2018;Dupire, 2016a, 2016b) 4 Studies (da Silva et al, 2018;Flores-Garzón et al, 2020;Mangiron, 2016;Shooster et al, 2017) 27 Studies (Andrade et al, 2018(Andrade et al, , 2019(Andrade et al, , 2020…”

Section: Game Technologies Across Disability Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions

Hassan

2023

New Media & Society

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Digital game technologies, that is, games and emerging game-based applications, are pervasively spread in society as a means of entertainment, education and exercise, amongst other uses. With this popularity, attention has been directed towards the accessibility of these technologies to people with disabilities to ensure equity, equal access to opportunities and realize earnings from a significant customer group. This study investigates: How is the attention of academic game accessibility research divided across game technologies, disability categories and use domains? And where is attention needed? To answer these questions, I conducted a review of research (162 manuscripts) on game technologies’ accessibility published between 2016 and 2020, inclusive. The reviewed literature appears to have a utility focus (e.g. on education and health management) that relatively de-emphasizes the importance of game accessibility for entertainment or fun purposes. Auditory, motor and mobility disabilities, and emerging gamification, exergames, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are especially under researched in the academic domain.

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Section: Game Technologies Across Disability Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions

Hassan

2023

New Media & Society

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“…Notably, the web site audiogames.net presents a list of games that grows frequently with new installments and updated versions. The evolution of audio games and the implications for design have been probed before [2,3,32,55,56,62], highlighting the variety of game mechanics and their overall popularity among visually impaired gamers.…”

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“…For instance, in Audio-Quake [4], an adaptation of the popular Quake [30], researchers use earcons to facilitate in-game interaction. In some audio-based games there's an analogy with real-life navigation systems, such as compass and sonar like features [2,58]. Musicraft [33] is an audio game inspired by Minecraft, in which the world is depicted by abstract musical representations.…”

Section: Accessible Games To People With Visual Impairmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the frst game, "Rescue: Under Pressure" (sub), the player with visual-based interaction is able to move the character (direct control) and the player with audio-based interaction has a global perception of the scenario (world awareness). Inspired by how sonar-like abilities were used before in audio-based world navigation [2,58], in our frst game two players control a submarine, one controlling the sonar (auditory challenge) and the other drives the submarine (visual challenge).…”

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Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming

Gonçalves

Rodrigues

Richardson

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The landscape of digital games is segregated by player ability. For example, sighted players have a multitude of highly visual games at their disposal, while blind players may choose from a variety of audio games. Attempts at improving cross-ability access to any of those are often limited in the experience they provide, or disregard multiplayer experiences. We explore ability-based asymmetric roles as a design approach to create engaging and challenging mixedability play. Our team designed and developed two collaborative testbed games exploring asymmetric interdependent roles. In a remote study with 13 mixed-visual-ability pairs we assessed how roles afected perceptions of engagement, competence, and autonomy, using a mixed-methods approach. The games provided an engaging and challenging experience, in which diferences in visual

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“…Other work looks to leverage the advantages of technologies, like the white cane, with which some people with disabilities are already familiar in order navigate virtual content [58,64,71]. Prior work has also considered how to make other 3D applications, such as games [3,19] or CAD software [56,57], accessible through similar techniques. In our work, we instead consider AR, which difers in that it is a combination of real and virtual content.…”

Section: Making Applications Accessiblementioning

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Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible

Herskovitz

White

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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Augmented Reality (AR) technology creates new immersive experiences in entertainment, games, education, retail, and social media. AR content is often primarily visual and it is challenging to enable access to it non-visually due to the mix of virtual and real-world content. In this paper, we identify common constituent tasks in AR by analyzing existing mobile AR applications for iOS, and characterize the design space of tasks that require accessible alternatives. For each of the major task categories, we create prototype accessible alternatives that we evaluate in a study with 10 blind participants to explore their perceptions of accessible AR. Our study demonstrates that these prototypes make AR possible to use for blind users and reveals a number of insights to move forward. We believe our work sets forth not only exemplars for developers to create accessible AR applications, but also a roadmap for future research to make AR comprehensively accessible. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Accessibility technologies; Mixed / augmented reality.

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Introducing the Gamer Information-Control Framework

Cited by 15 publications

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Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions

Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions

Exploring Asymmetric Roles in Mixed-Ability Gaming

Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible

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