Multimedia Games for Visually Impaired Children

Buaud, Aurélie; Svensson, Harry; Archambault, Dominique; Burger, Dominique

doi:10.1007/3-540-45491-8_38

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“…Researchers have created recreational digital games for traditional computers as well as various other hardware platforms [7,8,11,16,27,34,37]. McElligott et al [26] conducted co-design with blind children and developed several computer games with audio feedback.…”

Section: Accessible Digital Gamesmentioning

confidence: 98%

BraillePlay

Milne

Bennett

Ladner

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers &Amp; Accessibility - ASSETS '14

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There are many educational smartphone games for children, but few are accessible to blind children. We present BraillePlay, a suite of accessible games for smartphones that teach Braille character encodings to promote Braille literacy. The BraillePlay games are based on VBraille, a method for displaying Braille characters on a smartphone. BraillePlay includes four games of varying levels of difficulty: VBReader and VBWriter simulate Braille flashcards, and VBHangman and VBGhost incorporate Braille character identification and recall into word games. We evaluated BraillePlay with a longitudinal study in the wild with eight blind children. Through logged usage data and extensive interviews, we found that all but one participant were able to play the games independently and found them enjoyable. We also found evidence that some children learned Braille concepts. We distill implications for the design of games for blind children and discuss lessons learned.

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Section: Accessible Digital Gamesmentioning

confidence: 98%

BraillePlay

Milne

Bennett

Ladner

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers &Amp; Accessibility - ASSETS '14

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“…Buaud [34] sees games is a important aspect of youth culture. For Csikszentmihalyi [59], "Play allows a young organism to experiment a repertoire of behaviors in a non-threatening environment and, hence, to learn by trial-and-error without paying too high a price for errors".…”

Section: Games and Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…McElligott and Van Leeuwen [184] had children who are blind and with learning disabilities playing active roles in the design of games and toys. The TIM project [34] produced a tactile board on which blind kids can play several games: Reader rabbit's toddler [5] and Findit [216]. FindIt gave rise to a Game Generator [216] which enables educators to create their own games.…”

Section: Games and Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling the blind to see gestures

Quek

Oliveira

2013

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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(ABSTRACT)Mathematics instruction and discourse typically involve two modes of communication: speech and graphical presentation. For the communication to remain situated, dynamic synchrony must be maintained between the speech and dynamic focus in the graphics. Sighted students use vision for two purposes: access to graphical material and awareness of embodied behavior. This embodiment awareness keeps communication situated with visual material and speech. Our goal is to assist students who are blind or visually impaired (SBVI) in the access to such instruction/communication. We employ the typical approach of sensory replacement for the missing visual sense. Haptic fingertip reading can replace visual material. We want to make the SBVI aware of the deictic gestures performed by the teacher over the graphic in conjunction with speech. We employ a haptic glove interface to facilitate this embodiment awareness. In this research, we address issues from the conception through the design, implementation, evaluation to the effective and successful use of our Haptic Deictic System (HDS) in inclusive classrooms. GRANT INFORMATION

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“…The paper of Aurélie Buaud [5] introduces elementary game scenes that can be adapted in a generic way and suit many game situations, and the paper of Antoine Dutot [6] present a programming language aiming at making transparent the use of the various specific and standard devices.…”

Section: Adjustable and Attractive Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computers for the Development of Young Disabled Children

Archambault

2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The use of specific user devices, and specific software, may allow disabled people to perform independently some task they could not otherwise. In the case of young children they can be used in the way of stimulating cognitive works to help their development. In this session various experiences conducted with children with various kind of impairments are presented. These experiences are characterised by a few similarities like the importance of focusing on the possibilities of the children instead of the impairment, the necessity to use adjustable and attractive interfaces.

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Multimedia Games for Visually Impaired Children

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