Semiotic inspection of a game for children with Down syndrome

Proceedings - 2010 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment, SBGames 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-210

  Brandão, André ^a   Trevisan, Daniela G ^a   Brandão, Lenisa ^b   Moreira, Bruno ^a   Nascimento, Giancarlo ^a   Vasconcelos, Cristina N ^a   Clua, Esteban ^a   Mourão, Pedro T ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Children; Communicability; Down syndrome; Game; Human computer interaction; Semiotic inspection

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INSPECTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SEMIOTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CHILDREN; COGNITIVE ABILITY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICABILITY; DISABLED CHILDREN; DOWN SYNDROME; GAME; INCLUSIVE EDUCATION;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 79960228441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SBGAMES.2010.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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