Stepstone: an interactive floor application for hearing impaired children with a cochlear implant

OS Iversen, KJ Kortbek, KR Nielsen… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and …, 2007dl.acm.org
This paper describes a novel interactive floor application suited for hearing impaired
children with a cochlear implant (CI). Existing linguistic learning materials for CI children are
restricted to analogue books and CD ROM application in which bodily interaction is rather
limited. The paper highlights the relation between language and body movement and
proposes interactive floor technology as a foundation for CI children's linguistic learning. The
Stepstone application described in this paper combines body movement and group …
This paper describes a novel interactive floor application suited for hearing impaired children with a cochlear implant (CI). Existing linguistic learning materials for CI children are restricted to analogue books and CD ROM application in which bodily interaction is rather limited. The paper highlights the relation between language and body movement and proposes interactive floor technology as a foundation for CI children's linguistic learning. The Stepstone application described in this paper combines body movement and group collaboration as a mean for practicing and enhancing speech and language skills for CI children in a school environment. Two Stepstone games for CI children are presented: the Stepstone Ling Game helping the children to calibrate their cochlear implants, and the Stepstone Language Game which is a framework for language concept training.
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