Can a Game Improve People’s Lives? The Case of Serious Games

Accessibility of games and game-based applications: A systematic literature review and mapping of future directions

“…Review literature (Aguado-Delgado et al, 2020;Bujari et al, 2015;Camargo et al, 2019;Cinquin et al, 2019;Coelho et al, 2020;de Franca et al, 2019;de Lima Salgado et al, 2016;Fortes et al, 2017;Marques and Graeml, 2017;Nesteriuk, 2018;Pereira et al, 2018;Salvador-Ullauri et al, 2020b;Santos Nunes et al, 2018;Sousa, 2020;Teixeira Borges and Borba Campos, 2017;Valencia et al, 2019) 16…”

“…I thought that given the foundational importance of said models in the disability literature, they would be the most likely theory used by accessibility researchers. Twelve studies (Beckett et al, 2016;Beeston et al, 2018;Bujari et al, 2015;Cairns et al, 2019b;Cinquin et al, 2019;Dombrowski et al, 2019;Garcia and de Almeida Neris, 2020;Gonçalves et al, 2020;Leite et al, 2019;Merritt, 2017;Salen Tekinbaş, 2017;Wasserman et al, 2019) made explicit or strong implicit Children with disabilities (Beckett et al, 2016;Brusk and Engström, 2021;Buzzi et al, 2019;Cabrera et al, 2017;Correa et al, 2018;El Hammoumi et al, 2018;Gelsomini et al, 2019;Grabski et al, 2016;Kamaruzaman et al, 2016;Kang et al, 2021;Mahardhika et al, 2019;Mikulowski, 2018;Othman et al, 2019;Ringland, 2019;Rocha et al, 2019;…”

“…Within the reviewed literature, there were studies that explicitly utilized such framings of disability (Beckett et al, 2016;Beeston et al, 2018;Bujari et al, 2015;Cairns et al, 2019b;Cinquin et al, 2019;Dombrowski et al, 2019;Garcia and de Almeida Neris, 2020;Gonçalves et al, 2020;Leite et al, 2019;Merritt, 2017;Salen Tekinbaş, 2017;Wasserman et al, 2019) and I can specifically note the popularity of universal design (de Souza Sombrio et al, 2016a;Merritt, 2017;Sombrio et al, 2016) as a social model approach to implementing accessibility by designing environments that can be used by everyone with no barriers (Hamraie, 2017;Iwarsson and Ståhl, 2003). Overall, however, such studies were a minority in the examined literature.…”

“…I thought that given the foundational importance of said models in the disability literature, they would be the most likely theory used by accessibility researchers. Twelve studies (Beckett et al, 2016; Beeston et al, 2018; Bujari et al, 2015; Cairns et al, 2019b; Cinquin et al, 2019; Dombrowski et al, 2019; Garcia and de Almeida Neris, 2020; Gonçalves et al, 2020; Leite et al, 2019; Merritt, 2017; Salen Tekinbaş, 2017; Wasserman et al, 2019) made explicit or strong implicit reference to the social model of disability, which I identified through full-reads of the manuscripts. Universal design in learning (de Souza Sombrio et al, 2016a, 2016b; Merritt, 2017) followed as one of the frequently utilized theoretical framework in the literature.…”