Games’ “Social Tech Booster”

Tiago Cardoso; Vitor Santos; Carolina Santos; José Barata

Serious Games, Interaction, and Simulation. 5th International Conference, SGAMES 2015, Novedrate, Italy, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Games’ “Social Tech Booster”

Download

311 downloads

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-29060-7_18,
    author={Tiago Cardoso and Vitor Santos and Carolina Santos and Jos\^{e} Barata},
    title={Games’ “Social Tech Booster”},
    proceedings={Serious Games, Interaction, and Simulation. 5th International Conference, SGAMES 2015, Novedrate, Italy, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={SGAMES},
    year={2016},
    month={3},
    keywords={Social games Deafness Autism Spectrum Disorders Down syndrome},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-29060-7_18}
}

Tiago Cardoso
Vitor Santos
Carolina Santos
José Barata
Year: 2016
Games’ “Social Tech Booster”
SGAMES
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29060-7_18

Tiago Cardoso¹^,*, Vitor Santos¹^,*, Carolina Santos¹^,*, José Barata¹^,*

1: Universidade Nova de Lisboa

*Contact email: tomfc@uninova.pt, vsantos@isegi.unl.pt, c.santos@ensp.unl.pt, jab@uninova.pt

Abstract

The society has organized itself towards facing existing social needs like the care for children with Down syndrome, Deafness or Autism Spectrum Disorders, among several other pathologies. As a result, several organizations emerged towards handling these issues, composed of doctors, therapists, psychologists, among other professionals, but excluding technology experts. On the other hand side, the finalist students from technology universities usually have a final course where they have to create a complete project from scratch. This article proposes a method for applying the effort and enthusiasm of such students in the above mentioned social causes through games’ development.

Keywords: Social games Deafness Autism Spectrum Disorders Down syndrome

Published: 2016-03-29
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29060-7_18