Paper Info
Title
A Place to Play - The (Dis)Abled Embodied Experience for Autistic Children in Online Spaces.
Abstract
Play is the work of children-but access to play is not equal from child to child. Having access to a place to play is a challenge for marginalized children, such as children with disabilities. For autistic children, playing with other children in the physical world may be uncomfortable or even painful. Yet, having practice in the social skills play provides is essential for childhood development. In this ethnographic work, I explore how one community uses the sense of place and the digital embodied experience in a virtual world specifically to give autistic children access to play with their peers. The contribution of this work is twofold. First, I demonstrate how various physical and virtual spaces work together to make play possible. Second, I demonstrate these spaces, though some of them are digital, are no more or less "real" than the physical spaces making up a schoolyard or playground.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300518
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
autism, communication, disability, embodied experience, inclusion, social interaction, social media, virtual worlds
Autism,Social relation,Metaverse,Social media,Computer science,Social skills,Social exclusion,Embodied cognition,Human–computer interaction,Sense of place,Pedagogy
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2019
978-1-4503-5970-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kathryn E. Ringland1637.01