Designing Interactive and Motivating Stimuli for Children with Visual Impairments

Abstract

The long-term effects of visual impairments can, in some instances, be mitigated if the sensory cells in the eye are trained appropriately during (early) childhood. Exposure to visual stimuli like cardboards with high-contrast visual patterns is the cornerstone to a successful treatment. However, despite its benefits, this kind of vision training can be tedious and demotivating for children. To leverage training and therapy, we propose interaction design to create multimodal stimuli that are rewarding and motivating. The present work elaborated on this suggestion and presents a design concept that makes the vision therapist a playmaker, coach, playmate, wizard, and statistician all at the same time.

Contributors

Florian Güldenpfennig

Peter Fikar

Roman Ganhör

Conference

Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-4

Affiliations

HCI Group, Argentinierstraße 8, Vienna, Austria

Multidisciplinary Design Group, Favoritenstraße 9-11, Vienna, Austria

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.64

Copyright statement: © Güldenpfennig et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2017 – Digital Make-Believe. Sunderland, UK.

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing