Recommendations for the Development of Accessible Games for People with Down Syndrome

Nascimento, Lizie Sancho; Martins, Laura Bezerra; Villarouco, Vilma; Carvalho, Windson de; Lima, Raimundo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_176

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“…This project focused on this absence and intended to improve the autonomy of players with Down syndrome while interacting with mobile devices. In this way, a mobile game was created with no budget at all, following the guidelines from Schuytema [24], Nascimento et al [20], Barlet and Spohn from AbleGamers Foundation [9], Prena [21] and the iOs and Android manuals [22,23], to test the gestural interface with children with Trisomy 21. Moreover, since, the study was dealing with such a particular audience, the research team decided to first submit the game paper prototype to a group of usability specialists and then to health therapists.…”

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“…Recommendations for the development of accessible games for people with Down syndrome [20]; • Down syndrome video game preferences [21]; • Guidelines for game accessibility focused on intellectual disability people and mobile devices [9]. • Manuals of Android and iOS systems of gesture patterns [22,23].…”

Section: Game Development: Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In short, it was decided that the mobile game should have and test the five most common touchscreen gestures: tap, double-tap, drag, press, and pinch. It should be an action game, as suggested by Prena [21], and follow the accessibility recommendations by Nascimento et al [20] and Barlet and Spohn [9]. Barlet and Spohn are founder and director of an association focused on game accessibility, called AbleGamers, and both wrote Includification, a book that gives some advice for developers of how to make games accessible for disabled people.…”

Section: Game Development: Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The other list of recommendations added to the game development was established by Nascimento et al [20] (p. 9-10). They were built based on the impairments that the children with Down syndrome could have, as shown in Table 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Table 1. Recommendations for the development of accessible games for people with Down syndrome based on the possible impairments [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Challenges of Developing a Mobile Game for Children with Down Syndrome to Test Gestural Interface

2020

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After a literature review published by Nascimento et. al. (2017), the research team noticed the lack of studies focused on game controllers’ accessibility during use by children with Down syndrome. In view of that, this research describes a mobile game development and its usability analyses, which were created to evaluate the accessibility of touchscreen gestural interfaces. The methodology was organized into three steps: bibliographic research and the definition of the project guidelines, the game development, and its evaluation. The guidelines used were based on a study made by Nascimento et. al. (2019) of the impairments that children can have, their game preferences found on Prena’s article (2014), games accessibility guidelines for people with intellectual deficiency from the Includification Book (2012), a manual of touchscreen gestural interfaces from Android and iOS and a game development framework from Schuytema (2008). Then, for the usability analyses, the team decided to first submit the game to a group of experts in order to make some improvements before submitting it to the audience. In this way, two evaluations were done, a heuristic test with usability specialists and a cognitive walkthrough with health professionals. The list of heuristics used on the tests was created by a mash up of the Breyer evaluation (2008) and the recommendations of the Able Games Association (2012) and the cognitive one followed the Preece, Sharp and Rogers (2007) recommendations. The results found reveal some challenges in the field and adjustments, mainly in the narrative, game goals and interface feedback, that should be addressed as soon as possible.

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Section: Game Development: Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Game Development: Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Game Development: Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Table 1. Recommendations for the development of accessible games for people with Down syndrome based on the possible impairments [20].…”

Section: Game Development: Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenges of Developing a Mobile Game for Children with Down Syndrome to Test Gestural Interface

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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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Hand Gestures in Virtual and Augmented 3D Environments for Down Syndrome Users

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Studies have revealed that applications using virtual and augmented reality provide immersion, motivation, fun and engagement. However, to date, few studies have researched how users with Down syndrome interact with these technologies. This research has identified the most commonly used interactive 3D gestures according to the literature and tested eight of these using Oculus, Atheer and Leap Motion technologies. By applying MANOVAs to measurements of the time taken to complete each gesture and the success rate of each gesture when performed by participants with Down syndrome versus neurotypical participants, it was determined that significant difference was not shown for age or gender between these two sample groups. From the results, a difference was only demonstrated for the independent variable Down syndrome when analysed as a group. By using ANOVAs, it was determined that both groups found it easier to perform the gestures Stop, Point, Pan and Grab; thus, it is argued that these gestures should be used when programming software to create more inclusive AR and VR environments. The hardest gestures were Take, Pinch, Tap and Swipe; thus, these should be used to confirm critical actions, such as deleting data or cancelling actions. Lastly, the authors gather and make recommendations on how to develop inclusive 3D interfaces for individuals with Down syndrome.

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Recommendations for the Development of Accessible Games for People with Down Syndrome

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Challenges of Developing a Mobile Game for Children with Down Syndrome to Test Gestural Interface

Challenges of Developing a Mobile Game for Children with Down Syndrome to Test Gestural Interface

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

Hand Gestures in Virtual and Augmented 3D Environments for Down Syndrome Users

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