Unpacking the Audio Game Experience

Urbanek, Michael; Güldenpfennig, Florian

doi:10.1145/3311350.3347182

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“…For example, while audio games have significantly provided a gaming avenue for people with visual impairments (and to segments of people without visual impairments as well), they are a fix to gaming with a visual disability that can isolate, rather than integrate, blind gamers from mainstream gaming that they Hassan often wish to be a part of (Urbanek and Güldenpfennig, 2019). Solutions with such a medical spirit as audio games, yes, can lead to accessible tools, but tools that can isolate people with disabilities and have undesirable effects (Alfredsson Ågren et al, 2020; Andrade et al, 2019; Cairns et al, 2019b).…”

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“…Focused research in that domain, however, is focused on visual and motor disabilities, in a pattern that appears similar to that of research on entertainment. Ågren et al, 2020;Andrade et al, 2019Andrade et al, , 2020Beeston et al, 2018;Cairns et al, 2019b;Chakraborty et al, 2017;Contreras et al, 2019;de Araujo and Bonin, 2018;Furini et al, 2019;Gerling et al, 2016bGerling et al, , 2020Gonçalves et al, 2020;Leporini and Palmucci, 2018;Mahardhika et al, 2019;Martins et al, 2020;Mason et al, 2019;Napoli and Chiasson, 2018;Othman et al, 2019;Rao and O'Modhrain, 2020;Ringland, 2019;Salen Tekinbaş, 2017;Urbanek and Güldenpfennig, 2019;Wästerfors and Hansson, 2017) 23…”

Section: Research Domains Of Game Technologies Across Disability Cate...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Examine development and co-design processes (Andrade et al, 2020;Beckett et al, 2016;Brooks, 2017;Garcia and de Almeida Neris, 2020;Gerling et al, 2016b;Kaigo and Okura, 2020;Kang et al, 2021;Mahardhika et al, 2019;Mendoza-González et al, 2018;Muratet and Garbarini, 2020;Regal et al, 2020;Rocha and Escudeiro, 2018;Torres-Carazo et al, 2016;Urbanek and Güldenpfennig, 2019;Westin and Dupire, 2016b) 15…”

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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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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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confidence: 99%

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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“…Previous research has investigated the internet experiences of autistic people (including their experience with games; Gonçalves et al, 2020), others studied the experiences of disabled people with audio games through interviews (Urbanek & Güldenpfennig, 2019), investigated visually impaired people's habits, opinions, and concerns focusing on digital games (Andrade et al, 2019) and practical maneuvers of young disabled people related to digital games (Wästerfors & Hansson, 2017). Most of this research has focused on single-player games, a single type of disability at a time, and was conducted with small sample sizes.…”

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“It’s Easier to Play Alone”: A Survey Study of Gaming With Disabilities

Baltzar

Hassan

Turunen

2023

Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports

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Within gamers, disabled people remain an understudied minority. While research indicates that they actively play single-player games, we lack an understanding of their experience with multiplayer games. This study aims to answer the following research questions: (a) What kind of games do disabled people play? and (b) Why do disabled people not play multiplayer games? The questions are answered using survey data focusing on playing digital games as a person with disabilities. In total, 92 answers were analyzed. The findings suggest that disabled people play both single-player and multiplayer games and they play games for the same commonly reported reasons as players without disabilities do, although demographics seem to be a key differentiating factor among them in their playing habits, rather than disability differences. However, disabled people reported that they play single-player games more often. We identified four themes from our data that explain why multiplayer games are played less, which are: playing company and insecurity about one’s own skills, lack of relaxation while playing, lack of game accessibility, and lack of interest. Our results indicate that much more work is needed to ensure, especially the social, as well as the technical accessibility of multiplayer games.

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Unpacking the Audio Game Experience

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

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

“It’s Easier to Play Alone”: A Survey Study of Gaming With Disabilities

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