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Designing a Digital Experience for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities

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This paper reports on the development of a playful digital experience, Anim-action, designed for young children with developmental disabilities. This experience was built using the Stomp platform, a technology designed specifically to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability through facilitating whole body interaction. We provide detail on how knowledge gained from key stakeholders informed the design of the application and describe the design guidelines used in the development process. A study involving 13 young children with developmental disabilities was conducted to evaluate the extent to which Anim-action facilitates cognitive, social and physical activity. Results demonstrated that Anim-action effectively supports cognitive and physical activity. In particular, it promoted autonomy and encouraged problem solving and motor planning. Conversely, there were limitations in the system’s ability to support social interaction, in particular, cooperation. Results have been analyzed to determine how design guidelines might be refined to address these limitations.
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hal-01408515 , version 1 (05-12-2016)

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Peta Wyeth, Joshua Hall, Daniel Johnson. Designing a Digital Experience for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities. 13th International Conference Entertainment Computing (ICEC), Oct 2014, Sydney, Australia. pp.139-146, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-45212-7_18⟩. ⟨hal-01408515⟩
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