Playingtoimprovespa1alorganiza1onintheWilliamssyndromepopula1on
Introduc1on
Berney, S., Linh Quang, S., Szilas, N., Barisnikov, K., & Heiz, J.
Numerousgamesweredevelopedduringtheselastdecadestohelpandsupportskillseduca6onforchildrenwithspecialneeds.Peoplewith Williams Syndrome, who encounter par6cular learningdifficul6es in drawing, wri6ng and geometry, seem to have [email protected]"PlayingwithSpace",currentlybeingdeveloped,aimsathelping the player to improve his specific spa6al skills associatedwith drawing and graphic-motor ac6vi6es. This game allows theplayer to train precise visuospa6al geometric forms by handdrawing,withincreasinglevelsofcomplexity.
WSandspa1aldifficul1es
• Movements
• Unlocknewcolors
Selectedreferences
Hand drawing a simpleform:hereahorizontalline
Correct produc6on: thecharacter canmove aroundand the player receives aposi6veaudiofeedback
Handdrawingpreciseformtounlockthechestanddiscoveranewcolor
• A plateform game for touch screen interface (LENOVO Yoga)developedwiththeauthoringtoolClikteamFusion2.5
• 8levelsofdifficulty,consis6ngofthevaria6onofthedistanceandtheheightoftheplaWorms,andthecomplexityoftheformtobedrawn according to the VMI visual-motor integra6on abilitysubtest
• Afic6onalworldandanarra6on
• Thisgameispartofalargersetofseveralgamesbeingdesignedtosupport and train the graphic-motor ac6vi6es and visuo-spa6alskillsofWSpeople,according to thedevelopemental trendof theVMIgeometricforms(Berry&Berry,2004).
• WSpar6cipantsaswellastypicaldevelopmentchildrenwillplaythegameandbetestedinordertoinves6gatepoten6altransferontheVMI.
• Par6cipants'gameperformancesarerecordedandtranscribedinaspreadsheetforanalysis.
• Eachgestureproduc6on,eachtraceisalsosavedasanimagefileforfurtheranalysis
• Beery,K.E.,Buktenica,N.A.,&Beery,N.A.(1997).TheBeery-Buktenicadevelopmentaltestofvisual-motorintegra6on:VMI,withsupplementaldevelopmentaltestsofvisualpercep6onandmotorcoordina6on:administra6on,scoringandteachingmanual.ModernCurriculumPress.
• Malone,T.W.,&Lepper,M.R.(1987).Makinglearningfun:Ataxonomyofintrinsicmo6va6onsforlearning.InSnow,R.&Farr,M.J.(Ed),Ap6tude,learning,andinstruc6on,3:Cona6veandaffec6veProcessanalyses.Hiilsdalle,NJ.(1987),223-253.
• Szilas,N.,&Acosta,M.(2011).ATheore6calBackgroundforEduca6onalVideoGames:Games,Signs,Knowledge.HandbookofResearchonImprovingLearningandMo6va6onthroughEduca6onalGames:Mul6disciplinaryApproaches,Hershey,PA:IGIGlobal,215-238.• Nardini,M.,Atkinson,J.,Braddick,O.,&Burgess,N.(2008).Developmentaltrajectoriesforspa6alframesofreferenceinWilliamssyndrome.DevelopmentalScience,11,583-595.
• Heiz,J.,&Barisnikov,K.(2016).Visual–motorintegra6on,visualpercep6onandmotorcoordina6oninapopula6onwithWilliamssyndromeandintypicallydevelopingchildren.JournalofIntellectualDisabilityResearch,60(10),945–955.
• WronganswersWhen the player produces an incorrectdrawing, he receives a nega6ve audiofeedbackandhelpisprovided.
Aler 2 wronga@ emp t s , ahand drawingt h e d e s i r edformappears.
Aler 4 wronga@empts,pointsappear to guidethetrace.
Aler 6 wronga @ emp t s , aguiding frameappears.
Givingthechoiceaimsatenhancingintr ins ic mo6va6on throughiden6fica6on (Malone & Lepper,1987).Graph ic des ign fo l lows themetaphor of the drawing to fosterintegra6on(Szilas&Acosta,2011).
Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare gene6c neurodevelopmentaldisorder characterized by an important dissocia6on between well-developed general language abili6es (Bellugi, Wang, & Jernigan,1994) and severe deficits in visuospa6al abili6es (e.g Bellugi,Lichtenberger,Jones,Lai,&StGeorge,2000).Number of studies used the developmental test of Visual MotorIntegra6on (VMI, Beery, Buktenica & Beery, 1997) and highlightedspecific visual-construc6on deficits in copy of geometric forms(Bertrandetal.,1997;Dykens,Rosner,&Ly,2001,Heiz&Barisnikov,2016)
TheVMIconsistsofthreesubteststodis6nguishi)visualpercep6on,ii)motorcoordina6on,andiii)visual-motorintegra6onabili6es.
The main objec6f of "Playing with Space" is to train the player todraw simple geometric forms, based on the VMI visual-motorintegra6onabilitysubtest.Byhanddrawingcorrectsimpleformsonatouchscreen,theplayerwillbeabletomakehischaractermovearoundandprogressthroughvariouslevels.
PlayingwithSpace
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Gamemechanics
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Technicalsolu1on
Savingdata
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