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Design considerations to support therapy for children with learning and language disabilities

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Raymundo Cornejo,

Fernando Martínez,

Vania Álvarez,

Claudia BarrazaAuthors Info & Claims

MexIHC'16: Proceedings of the 6th Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Pages 5 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2967175.2967382

Published: 21 September 2016 Publication History

Abstract

With a considerable population being reported with learning disabilities, several studies stressed the relationship between these disabilities and physical activity. Language and learning therapy aims to improve cognitive skills. However, therapy is time consuming and based on the expertise of the therapist's clinical eye. Considering this, we conducted a 5-month user-centered design study to understand and support therapy. Our findings indicate 3 gross motor skills and 1 cognitive skill are recurrently reported on children therapist's records. These skills are taken into account to the design of a vision-based computer system that will track children performance and will provide important data for further child learning assessment, thus empowering the therapist in her work.

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Cornejo RMartínez FÁlvarez VBarraza CCibrian FMartínez-García ATentori M(2021)Serious games for basic learning mechanisms: reinforcing Mexican children’s gross motor skills and attentionPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing10.1007/s00779-021-01529-0Online publication date: 12-Mar-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01529-0
Cornejo RMartínez FBarraza CÁlvarez V(2017)Indirect sensing surfaces to support Movement-Based Learning therapyProceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3151470.3151474(1-8)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3151470.3151474

Design considerations to support therapy for children with learning and language disabilities
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods

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Cornejo RMartínez FÁlvarez VBarraza CCibrian FMartínez-García ATentori M(2021)Serious games for basic learning mechanisms: reinforcing Mexican children’s gross motor skills and attentionPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing10.1007/s00779-021-01529-0Online publication date: 12-Mar-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01529-0
Cornejo RMartínez FBarraza CÁlvarez V(2017)Indirect sensing surfaces to support Movement-Based Learning therapyProceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3151470.3151474(1-8)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3151470.3151474

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