Paper Info
Title
Would You Be Mine: Appropriating Minecraft as an Assistive Technology for Youth with Autism.
Abstract
Those with disabilities have long adopted, adapted, and appropriated collaborative systems to serve as assistive devices. In this paper, we present the results of a digital ethnography in a Minecraft virtual world for children with autism, specifically examining how this community has used do-it-yourself (DIY) making activities to transform the game into a variety of assistive technologies. Our results demonstrate how players and administrators \"mod\" the Minecraft system to support self-regulation and community engagement. This work highlights the ways in which we, as researchers concerned with accessible and equitable computing spaces, might reevaluate the scope of our inquiry, and how designers might encourage and support appropriation, enhancing users' experience and long-term adoption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2982142.2982172
ASSETS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Assistive technology,DIY,appropriation,modding,Minecraft,virtual worlds,autism,disability
Autism,Metaverse,Appropriation,Community engagement,Collaboration,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Digital ethnography,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.55
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kathryn E. Ringland1637.01
Christine T. Wolf2406.23
LouAnne Boyd3946.77
Mark S. Baldwin4110.55
Gillian Hayes51852155.64