Children that rely on the use of single switches to access electronic devices, due to physical impairments, can play dynamic video games as their normally developing peers thanks to GNomon: one of the first framework for creating dynamic one-switch video games. However, children with physical impairments that also have cognitive disabilities find additional difficulties in using the current GNomon-based interface. To compensate these difficulties, the “classical” GNomon widget must be rethought and simplified. This paper proposes a parallel between three different widgets specifically designed for GNomon-based interfaces. Each widget employs metaphor in a different way and it has been evaluated with six children with motor and cognitive disabilities. The results are encouraging: a widget, based on the “big and small” concept, is preferred by children and is a candidate to make single-switch games easier to approach.

Clocks, Bars and Balls: Design and Evaluation of Alternative GNomon Widgets for Children with Disabilities / ACED LOPEZ, Sebastian; Corno, Fulvio; DE RUSSIS, Luigi. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 1654-1660. (Intervento presentato al convegno CHI 2016: The 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems tenutosi a San Jose, California, USA nel May 7-12, 2016) [10.1145/2851581.2892373].

Clocks, Bars and Balls: Design and Evaluation of Alternative GNomon Widgets for Children with Disabilities

ACED LOPEZ, SEBASTIAN;CORNO, Fulvio;DE RUSSIS, LUIGI
2016

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Children that rely on the use of single switches to access electronic devices, due to physical impairments, can play dynamic video games as their normally developing peers thanks to GNomon: one of the first framework for creating dynamic one-switch video games. However, children with physical impairments that also have cognitive disabilities find additional difficulties in using the current GNomon-based interface. To compensate these difficulties, the “classical” GNomon widget must be rethought and simplified. This paper proposes a parallel between three different widgets specifically designed for GNomon-based interfaces. Each widget employs metaphor in a different way and it has been evaluated with six children with motor and cognitive disabilities. The results are encouraging: a widget, based on the “big and small” concept, is preferred by children and is a candidate to make single-switch games easier to approach.
2016
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