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Touching Base on Children's Interactions with Tablet Games

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Suzanne Clarke,

Matthew Horton,

Gavin SimAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Pages 61 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131432

Published: 15 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes work commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to investigate how children with multiple disabilities use tablet games in their homes. An extended study of 20 children in their families, using surveys, diaries, interviews and observations, is described. The findings from the study are captured in themes which bring together the game play difficulties. A set of six personas are included that describe some of the difficulties faced by some of the children. Five key challenges for designers of games for children with disabilities are presented. The paper includes reflections from the BBC, on how this work has found its way into their product lines and the benefits of working in an academic -- industrial partnership are highlighted.

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Touching Base on Children's Interactions with Tablet Games
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Read JFitton DSim GBjorklund MGiannakos MClarke SVan Mechelen MBorum NPerry SFails J(2019)IDC Methods into Industry and InnovationProceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/3311927.3325164(676-680)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3311927.3325164
Read J(2018)It's Cool but What Else can I Do?Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience in Indonesia, CHIuXiD '1810.1145/3205946.3205963(105-108)Online publication date: 23-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3205946.3205963
dos Santos Nunes Eda Conceição Júnior Vde Faria Borges L(2018)Interaction Techniques to Promote Accessibility in Games for Touchscreen Mobile Devices: A Systematic ReviewUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Methods, Technologies, and Users10.1007/978-3-319-92049-8_13(178-191)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-92049-8_13

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