Towards Generalised Accessibility of Computer Games

Dominique Archambault; Thomas Gaudy; Klaus Miesenberger; Stéphane Natkin; Roland Ossmann

Towards Generalised Accessibility of Computer Games

Dominique Archambault
, Thomas Gaudy
, Klaus Miesenberger
, Stéphane Natkin
, Roland Ossmann

Institute Integrated Studies

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings › peer-review

Abstract

Computer games accessibility have initially been regarded as an area of minor importance as there were much more "serious" topics to focus on. Today, the society is slowly moving forward in the direction of accessibility and the conditions come to make new proposals for mainstream game accessibility. In this paper we'll show the main reasons why it is necessary to progress in this direction, then we'll explain how works standard computer applications accessibility and why it is not working in general with games. We will discuss the state of the art in this area and finally we will introduce our vision of future accessibility framework allowing games developer to design accessible games as well as assistive providers the possibility of developing Assistive Games Interfaces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2008 Nanjing, China, June 25-27, 2008
Editors	Pang, M.
Place of Publication	Tier
Publisher	Springer
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2008

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102013 Human-computer interaction
102014 Information design
102015 Information systems
102021 Pervasive computing
102022 Software development
102024 Usability research
102026 Virtual reality
102027 Web engineering
502007 E-commerce
503008 E-learning
506002 E-government
509002 Disability studies
602013 Sign language research
202004 Brain-computer interface
211902 Assistive technologies
302027 Hearing, voice and language disorders
102036 Digital accessibility

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Towards Generalised Accessibility of Computer Games. / Archambault, Dominique; Gaudy, Thomas; Miesenberger, Klaus et al.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2008 Nanjing, China, June 25-27, 2008. ed. / Pang, M. Tier: Springer, 2008.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings › peer-review

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