Designing Serious Games with Pervasive Therapist Interface for Phonetic-Phonological Assessment of Children
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Abstract
Usually, therapy is a tedious process for children as it requires repetitive exercises/tasks. A known strategy to increase engagement is to deliver therapy through games. Therefore, Fanima emerged as a serious game-based diagnosis tool co-designed with therapists’ participation for phonetic-phonological assessment of speech disorders focused on the European Portuguese language. The integration with a web platform allows real-time therapist interaction to control the game based on the classification of child vocalisations in response to gameplay requests, which follows the therapeutic structure for the intended diagnosis. A preliminary user study with six speech therapists was conducted to validate the tool’s concept and usability, responding to the therapeutic requirements. The results are positive and interesting, validating the tool in the first evaluation phase and suggesting a tendency of acceptance by more therapists.
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