Name
Title | ||
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Designing location-based learning experiences for people with intellectual disabilities and additional sensory impairments |
Abstract | ||
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The research reported here is part of a larger project which seeks to combine serious games (or games-based learning) with location-based services to help people with intellectual disabilities and additional sensory impairments to develop work based skills. Specifically this paper reports on where these approaches are combined to scaffold the learning of new routes and ultimately independent travel to new work and educational opportunities. A phased development methodology is applied in a user sensitive manner, to ensure that user feedback drives the ongoing development process. Methods to structure this include group feedback on conceptual storyboards, expert review of prototypes using usability heuristics relating to the main system goals, and finally co-discovery methods with student pairs exploring all three modes of the system in real world contexts. Aspects of developmental and cognitive psychological theories are also reviewed and it is suggested that combining games-based learning approaches with location-based services is an appropriate combination of technologies for an application specifically designed to scaffold route learning for this target audience. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.04.014 | Computers & Education |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
cooperative/collaborative learning,location-based service,public spaces and computing,games-based learning,group feedback,human–computer interface,user sensitive manner,navigation,user feedback,new work,new route,development methodology,cross-cultural projects,main system goal,ongoing development process,intellectual disability,additional sensory impairment,geographic information systems,mental retardation,mobility,electronic learning,educational technology,instructional design,human computer interface | Computer-Assisted Instruction,Educational technology,Geographic information system,Computer science,Knowledge management,Target audience,Multiple disabilities,Pedagogy,Cognition,Sensory system,Instructional design | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
56 | 1 | Computers & Education |
Citations | PageRank | References |
28 | 2.27 | 7 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| David J. Brown | 1 | 114 | 15.73 |
| David McHugh | 2 | 28 | 2.27 |
| Penny Standen | 3 | 46 | 5.60 |
| Lindsay Evett | 4 | 100 | 10.65 |
| Nick Shopland | 5 | 33 | 4.82 |
| Steven Battersby | 6 | 40 | 4.54 |