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A computer game for people with disability may be for people with a sensory disability, motor disability, intellectual disability, learning disability, weak communication skills, weak social skills, or a combination of these. This chapter is a concise survey which includes representative games for each category of disability. Games addressing disorders that do not fall in any category of disability are not in the scope of this survey. The goal of the survey is to make the readers aware of the types of disability for which computer games have been developed. It does not include work at the intersection of games and disability which primarily falls in any of the following categories: (i) identifying design...
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Mali, A.D. (2023). Computer Games for People with Disability. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_267-1
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