research-article

SEGA-ARM: A Metamodel for the Design of Serious Games to Support Auditory Rehabilitation

Authors:

David Céspedes-Hernández,

Jorge Luis Pérez-Medina,

Juan Manuel González-Calleros,

Francisco J. Álvarez Rodríguez,

Jaime Muñoz-ArteagaAuthors Info & Claims

Interacción '15: Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Article No.: 10, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2829875.2829877

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Hearing impairments are widely recognized as one of the most common disability that affects many people. There are several works addressing the design and development of systems for the rehabilitation of users with disabilities, as well as for the definition of models to express their capabilities and disabilities. Unfortunately, when we want to develop interactive systems to assist hearing impairment therapy, knowledge of analysis and design, typical of the methodologies is absent. In this paper, we introduce SEGA-ARM: a metamodel to support the design of serious games for auditory rehabilitation, considering concepts related to speech therapy sessions, user capabilities, the context of use, and concepts related to serious games design. The proposed solution is provided using a semi-formal UML notation. Two game prototypes are presented to validate the viability of the application of the metamodel for serious games development and to point out its reutilization and extension.

References

[1]

Arnab, S., Dunwell, I., & Debattista, K. (2013). Serious games for healthcare: Applications and implications. Medical Information Science Reference.

[2]

McDowell, P., Darken, R., Sullivan, J., & Johnson, E. (2006). Delta3D: a complete open source game and simulation engine for building military training systems. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology, 3(3), 143--154.

[3]

Michael, D. R., & Chen, S. L. (2005). Serious games: Games that educate, train, and inform. Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade.

Digital Library

[4]

Breuer, J. S., & Bente, G. (2010). Why so serious? On the relation of serious games and learning. Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture, 4(1), 7--24.

[5]

Kuipers, D. A., et al. (2013). Design for Transfer. In Serious Games Development and Applications (pp. 239--246). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

[6]

Ritterfeld, U., Cody, M., & Vorderer, P. (Eds.). (2010). Serious games: Mechanisms and effects. Routledge.

[7]

Kikuchi, T., et al. (2007, June). Quasi-3-DOF rehabilitation system for upper limbs: its force-feedback mechanism and software for rehabilitation. In Rehabilitation Robotics, 2007. ICORR 2007. IEEE 10th International Conference on (pp. 24--27). IEEE.

[8]

Burdea, G., Popescu, V., Hentz, V., & Colbert, K. (2000). Virtual reality-based orthopedic telerehabilitation. Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 8(3), 430--432.

[9]

Casas, Roberto, et al. User modelling in ambient intelligence for elderly and disabled people. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.

Digital Library

[10]

Kaklanis, N., A Coupled User and Task Modelling Methodology for Accessible Product Design. PhD dissertation, University of Surrey. March 2013.

[11]

Ventry, I. M., & Weinstein, B. E. (1982). The hearing handicap inventory for the elderly: a new tool. Ear and hearing, 3(3), 128--134.

[12]

Koch, N., & Kraus, A. (2003). Towards a common metamodel for the development of web applications. In Web Engineering (pp. 497--506). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Digital Library

[13]

Brandt Jr, E. N., & Pope, A. M. (Eds.). (1997). Enabling America: Assessing the Role of Rehabilitation Science and Engineering. National Academies Press.

[14]

Rego, P., Moreira, P. M., & Reis, L. P. (2010, June). Serious games for rehabilitation: A survey and a classification towards a taxonomy. In Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2010 (pp. 1--6). IEEE.

[15]

McDonnell, A., & Akruvala, S. D. (2012). Rehabilitative Therapists in Geriatric Health Services. Managing Geriatric Health Services, 45.

[16]

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014--15 Edition, Speech-Language Pathologists, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/speech-language-pathologists.htm (visited March, 2015).

[17]

World Health Organization, Fact sheet No.300 Updated March 2015, on the Internet at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs300/en/ (visited March, 2015).

[18]

Pereira, A. (2010). Criteria for elaborating subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing adults in Spain: Description of a case study. Listening to Subtitles. Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 87--102.

[19]

Svirsky, M. A., et al. (2000). Language development in profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants. Psychological science, 11(2), 153--158.

[20]

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Quick Statistics. On the Internet http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/pages/quick.aspx (visited February, 2015).

[21]

Zyda, M. (2005). From visual simulation to virtual reality to games. Computer, 38(9), 25--32.

Digital Library

[22]

Chin, S. B., Bergeson, T. R., & Phan, J. (2012). Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants. Journal of communication disorders, 45(5), 355--366.

[23]

Lenden, J. M., & Flipsen, P. (2007). Prosody and voice characteristics of children with cochlear implants. Journal of Communication Disorders, 40(1), 66--81.

[24]

Aldrich, C. (2009). The complete guide to simulations and serious games: how the most valuable content will be created in the age beyond Gutenberg to Google. John Wiley & Sons.

Digital Library

[25]

Deterding, S., et al. (2011, September). From game design elements to gamefulness: defining gamification. In Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments (pp. 9--15). ACM.

Digital Library

[26]

Taylor, L. N. (2002). Video games: Perspective, point-of-view, and immersion (Doctoral dissertation, University of Florida).

[27]

Salen, K., & Zimmerman, E. (2004). Rules of play: Game design fundamentals. MIT press.

Digital Library

[28]

Sánchez, J. L. G., Zea, N. P., & Gutiéérrez, F. L. (2009). From usability to playability: Introduction to player-centred video game development process. In Human Centered Design (pp. 65--74). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Digital Library

[29]

Longstreet, C. S., & Cooper, K. (2012, July). A meta-model for developing simulation games in higher education and professional development training. In Computer Games (CGAMES), 2012 17th International Conference on (pp. 39--44). IEEE.

Digital Library

[30]

Ittleman, M. A. (2012). The Teaching of Talking: Learn to Do Expert Speech Therapy at Home with Children and Adults. Morgan James Publishing.

[31]

Calvary, G., et al. (2003). A unifying reference framework for multi-target user interfaces. Interacting with Computers, 15(3), 289--308.

[32]

Florins, M., et al. (2006). Splitting rules for graceful degradation of user interfaces. In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces (pp. 59--66). ACM.

Digital Library

Cited By

Suh HDangol AMeadan HMiller CKientz J(2024)Opportunities and Challenges for AI-Based Support for Speech-Language PathologistsProceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work10.1145/3663384.3663387(1-14)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663384.3663387
Céspedes-Hernández DRodríguez-Vizzuett LGonzález-Calleros JMuñoz-Arteaga J(2017)Extension of a User Model for Promoting the Development of Applications to Support Auditory RehabilitationHCI for Children with Disabilities10.1007/978-3-319-55666-6_3(53-70)Online publication date: 5-May-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55666-6_3
De Lope RMedina-Medina N(2016)Using UML to Model Educational Games2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590373(1-4)Online publication date: Sep-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590373

Index Terms

SEGA-ARM: A Metamodel for the Design of Serious Games to Support Auditory Rehabilitation
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

Recommendations

SpokeIt: building a mobile speech therapy experience
MobileHCI '18: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

SpokeIt is a mobile serious game for health designed to support speech articulation therapy. Here, we present SpokeIt as well as 2 preceding speech therapy prototypes we built, all of which use a novel offline critical speech recognition system capable ...
An extension of UML for the modeling of WIMP user interfaces

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) [OMG, Unified Modeling Language Specification, Version 2.0, Technical Report, Object Management Group , 2005] provides system architects working on analysis and design (A&D) with one consistent language for specifying,...
Proposal of a model for the analysis of requirements and activities for the design of interactive experiences aimed at the psychomotor rehabilitation of children with hearing impairments
Interacción '17: Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

To¹ design interactive experiences for rehabilitation, we need to identify previously the variables to take into account in the design and development. Therefore, the aim of this work is to propose a model to help in the gathering of appropriate ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

Interacción '15: Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

September 2015

287 pages

ISBN:9781450334631

DOI:10.1145/2829875

Conference Chair:
Pere Ponsa,
Program Chair:
Daniel Guasch

Copyright © 2015 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

In-Cooperation

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 07 September 2015

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article
Research
Refereed limited

Conference

Interacción '15

Interacción '15: XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

September 7 - 9, 2015

Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 109 of 163 submissions, 67%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
149
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)6
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 13 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Suh HDangol AMeadan HMiller CKientz J(2024)Opportunities and Challenges for AI-Based Support for Speech-Language PathologistsProceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work10.1145/3663384.3663387(1-14)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663384.3663387
Céspedes-Hernández DRodríguez-Vizzuett LGonzález-Calleros JMuñoz-Arteaga J(2017)Extension of a User Model for Promoting the Development of Applications to Support Auditory RehabilitationHCI for Children with Disabilities10.1007/978-3-319-55666-6_3(53-70)Online publication date: 5-May-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55666-6_3
De Lope RMedina-Medina N(2016)Using UML to Model Educational Games2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590373(1-4)Online publication date: Sep-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590373

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents