KIGB: Knowing and interacting while gaming for the blind
The development and enhancement of cognitive skills in people who are blind has been highly demanded in the literature. Digital technology targeting this need is widely desired and demanded. There is also a need beyond the technology development. Usability and cognitive impact evaluation studies of technology for people with visual disability are claimed and required for better understanding and adequate and pertinent use. This proposal is targeting this need and demand. We focus on Knowing and Interacting while Gaming for the Blind, KIGB. We intend to design, implement and evaluate a multimodal mobile videogame application for enhancing cognition in people with visual disabilities. Thus the focal point is mobile gaming for further developing cognitive processes such as mental models, cognitive spatial structures, and navigation skills in people with visual disabilities. Mobile software evaluation, usability evaluation and impact evaluation will be a key in this project. By implementing KIGB we aim at producing a mobile gaming computer application that is usable, understandable and effective. Finally, the most global purpose of the KIGB project is to contribute from the computer science side to better develop the intellect of people who are blind, to help them to be more autonomous and independent in their life and their relations with people and surroundings, and thus helping them to be more integrated and included in our society and culture.
Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa.
Integrantes: Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade - Integrante / Windson Viana de Carvalho - Integrante / Edgar Marçal - Integrante / Jérome Gensel - Integrante / Ismayle de Sousa Santos - Integrante / Jaime Sanchez - Coordenador / Matias Espinoza - Integrante / Carla Ilane Moreira Bezerra - Integrante / Márcia de Borba Campos - Integrante / Marcio Sarroglia Pinho - Integrante / Ticianne Ribeiro Teixeira - Integrante / Agebson Façanha - Integrante / Philippe Genoud - Integrante / Marlène Villanova-Oliver - Integrante / Christian Lykawka - Integrante / Álvaro Menezes - Integrante / Tales Nereu Bogoni - Integrante / Arthur Fernando Arnold Battaglia - Integrante / Sylvain Bouveret - Integrante.
2014 - 2016