Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs

Ming Yueh Hwang; Jon Chao Hong; Chia Yin Chuang; Ming Chi Kiu

Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs

Ming Yueh Hwang
, Jon Chao Hong
, Chia Yin Chuang
, Ming Chi Kiu

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Students with intellectual and/or physical disabilities frequently experience impaired logic, cognitive impairment, attention deficit disorder, poor problem solving skills, and poor social behaviors, which can result in learning frustration and decreased motivation to study. Taking these students into account, this research designed a digital mobile device application, named Fun Ocean, for a group of children between ages 6 and 12 with different levels of disability. Participants identify a list of marine animals using figure recognition techniques. Fun Ocean allows participants to interact with the iPad via finger touch and shaking the G sensor device to transfer marine animals from one iPad to another, which motivates them to learn about the defensive and offensive functions of marine animals. Participants' game behavior change on each trial was collected throughout the experiment via observation with a checklist. It was found that Fun Ocean improved the cognitive skills of the students with special needs, and enhanced their learning interest and attentiveness. Finally, complex forms of human-computer interaction in this game can aid physical coordination.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017
Editors	Maja Pivec, Josef Grundler
Publisher	Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited
Pages	278-284
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781911218562
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017 - Graz, Austria Duration: 2017 Oct 5 → 2017 Oct 6

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017

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Other	11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Graz
Period	2017/10/05 → 2017/10/06

UN SDGs

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

SDG 14 Life Below Water

Keywords

Autism
Cerebral palsy
Game-based learning
Intellectual disability
Special needs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Control and Systems Engineering
Education

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Hwang, M. Y., Hong, J. C., Chuang, C. Y., & Kiu, M. C. (2017). Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs. In M. Pivec, & J. Grundler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017 (pp. 278-284). (Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017). Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.

Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs. / Hwang, Ming Yueh; Hong, Jon Chao; Chuang, Chia Yin et al.
Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017. ed. / Maja Pivec; Josef Grundler. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2017. p. 278-284 (Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hwang, MY, Hong, JC, Chuang, CY & Kiu, MC 2017, Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs. in M Pivec & J Grundler (eds), Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, pp. 278-284, 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017, Graz, Austria, 2017/10/05.

Hwang MY, Hong JC, Chuang CY, Kiu MC. Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs. In Pivec M, Grundler J, editors, Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. 2017. p. 278-284. (Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017).

Hwang, Ming Yueh ; Hong, Jon Chao ; Chuang, Chia Yin et al. / Designing shaking g-sensor in mobile devices for students with special needs. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017. editor / Maja Pivec ; Josef Grundler. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2017. pp. 278-284 (Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017).

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