Video Games in Education of Deaf Children - A Set of Pratical Design Guidelines

Rafael dos Passos Canteri, Laura Sánchez García, Tânya Amara Felipe de Souza, Carlos Eduardo Andrade Iatskiu

2015

Abstract

Deaf communities are quite unsupported in terms of assistive technology. These communities have many special needs in terms of Education, Communication and Leisure which, most of the time, are not attended. There is a great variety of studies that ensure the benefits the educative video games bring to children. However, Deaf communities do not have satisfactory softwares of this kind as well. The present study shows a set of guidelines, based on known educative video games models and on a Deaf children education methodology, intended to support game developers when creating educational video games for Deaf children. Following the guidelines, the construction of a game for Deaf children is presented in order to show the effectiveness of the guidelines within the design process and to assess them.

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dos Passos Canteri R., Sánchez García L., Amara Felipe de Souza T. and Andrade Iatskiu C. (2015). Video Games in Education of Deaf Children - A Set of Pratical Design Guidelines . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-098-7, pages 122-129. DOI: 10.5220/0005397701220129


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Rafael dos Passos Canteri and Laura Sánchez García and Tânya Amara Felipe de Souza and Carlos Eduardo Andrade Iatskiu},
title={Video Games in Education of Deaf Children - A Set of Pratical Design Guidelines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={122-129},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005397701220129},
isbn={978-989-758-098-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Video Games in Education of Deaf Children - A Set of Pratical Design Guidelines
SN - 978-989-758-098-7
AU - dos Passos Canteri R.
AU - Sánchez García L.
AU - Amara Felipe de Souza T.
AU - Andrade Iatskiu C.
PY - 2015
SP - 122
EP - 129
DO - 10.5220/0005397701220129