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Games for the rehabilitation of disabled people

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Barbara Leporini,

Marion HershAuthors Info & Claims

REHAB '16: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques

Pages 109 - 112

https://doi.org/10.1145/3051488.3051496

Published: 13 October 2016 Publication History

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In this paper, we consider the use of games in the rehabilitation of disabled people, with particular attention to blind and partially sighted people. Serious games are currently very widely used in a variety of applications including education, training, culture, therapy and rehabilitation. However, this raises the issues of whether they are suitable for disabled people and the extent to which disabled people have been involved in the design. We will be reporting the results of a survey to investigate the extent to which existing and proposed games are accessible to disabled and older people, particularly blind and partially sighted people.

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Santana KGalvão AAzevedo GSarinho VPereira C(2021)Braillestick: A Game Control Proposal for Blind Users Based on the Braille TypewriterEntertainment Computing – ICEC 202010.1007/978-3-030-65736-9_13(142-147)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2021
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Acosta-Vargas PSalvador-Ullauri LPérez-Medina JGonzalez MJimenes KRybarczyk Y(2019)Improving Web Accessibility: Evaluation and Analysis of a Telerehabilitation Platform for Hip Arthroplasty PatientsAdvances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_46(508-519)Online publication date: 5-Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_46
Hersh MLeporini B(2018)Editorial: Serious games, education and inclusion for disabled peopleBritish Journal of Educational Technology10.1111/bjet.1265049:4(587-595)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12650
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Index Terms

Games for the rehabilitation of disabled people
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility design and evaluation methods
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User interface design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Virtual worlds software
        Interactive games

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REHAB '16: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques

October 2016

135 pages

ISBN:9781450347655

DOI:10.1145/3051488

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Víctor Ruiz Penichet
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King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia
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Lusophone University Lisbon, Portugal

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Santana KGalvão AAzevedo GSarinho VPereira C(2021)Braillestick: A Game Control Proposal for Blind Users Based on the Braille TypewriterEntertainment Computing – ICEC 202010.1007/978-3-030-65736-9_13(142-147)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65736-9_13
Acosta-Vargas PSalvador-Ullauri LPérez-Medina JGonzalez MJimenes KRybarczyk Y(2019)Improving Web Accessibility: Evaluation and Analysis of a Telerehabilitation Platform for Hip Arthroplasty PatientsAdvances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_46(508-519)Online publication date: 5-Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_46
Hersh MLeporini B(2018)Editorial: Serious games, education and inclusion for disabled peopleBritish Journal of Educational Technology10.1111/bjet.1265049:4(587-595)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12650
Acosta-Vargas PRybarczyk YPerez JGonzalez MJimenes KLeconte LEsparza D(2018)Towards Web Accessibility in Telerehabilitation Platforms2018 IEEE Third Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting (ETCM)10.1109/ETCM.2018.8580272(1-6)Online publication date: Oct-2018
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