Making Mainstreaming Videogames More Accessible: A Pilot Study Applied to Buzz!TM Junior Monster Rumble for PlayStation

Laudanna, Elena; Bulgheroni, Maria; Caprino, Francesca; Besio, Serenella

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_38

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“…Medical Therapy [1, 26-29, 45, 46, 58, 67, 81, 87, 95, 121, 125, 129, 130] Diagnosis [7,34,57,78,95,101,102,110,115,134] Training [54-56, 91, 103, 132, 138] Social Collaboration [8,9,13,16,17,49,83,94,96,98,105,122] Education [12,18,25,36,48,59,60,65,69,82,86] Communication [14,45] Sports [36,52] Work Skills [75,128] Art & Public [34,53] Identity Free Play [77,104,[106][107][108]137] Table 7. Purpose categorisation w...…”

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The Purpose of Play

Spiel

Gerling

2021

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

125

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Play presents a popular pastime for all humans, though not all humans play alike. Subsequently, Human–Computer Interaction Games research is increasingly concerned with the development of games that serve neurodivergent 1 players. In a critical review of 66 publications informed by Disability Studies and Self-Determination Theory, we analyse which populations , research methods, kinds of play and overall purpose goals existing games address. We find that games are largely developed for children, in a top-down approach. They tend to focus on educational and medical settings and are driven by factors extrinsic to neurodivergent interests. Existing work predominantly follows a medical model of disability, which fails to support self-determination of neurodivergent players and marginalises their opportunities for immersion. Our contribution comprises a large-scale investigation into a budding area of research gaining traction with the intent to capture a status quo and identify opportunities for future work attending to differences without articulating them as deficit.

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