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Designing Kinect games to train motor skills for mixed ability players

Authors : Koen de Greef, Erik D. van der Spek, Tilde Bekker

Published in: Games for Health

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

Children who have special needs when it comes to motor skill development, for instance as a result of developmental coordination disorder or cerebral palsy, need to undergo long bouts of physical therapy. This can often be considered boring, to the detriment of the efficacy of the therapy. One way to improve the engagement of physical therapy is to embed it into a video game, e.g. with the aid of Kinect. However, very little is known scientifically on how to design these serious games for mixed abilities in order to be both fun and efficacious in terms of motor skills development or attitude change. In addition, contemporary entertainment games often revolve around competition based on mastery of skills to be engaging, something special needs children feel left out in. In this position paper we survey the field and propose a number of ways to approach mixed ability game design.

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Metadata
Title
Designing Kinect games to train motor skills for mixed ability players
Authors
Koen de Greef
Erik D. van der Spek
Tilde Bekker
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Book
Games for Health

Print ISBN: 978-3-658-02896-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-02897-8

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02897-8_15

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