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• Tangicraft: A Multimodal Interface for Minecraft

  David Bar-El, Thomas Large, Lydia Davison, Marcelo Worsley · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

  This demonstration paper presents Tangicraft, a work-in-progress multimodal interface designed to enable visually impaired children to play and collaborate in Minecraft, one of the world's most popular video games with over 121 million copies sold. Like most commercial games,…

  game accessibility · visual impairment · children · haptic feedback · tangible interface

• Jellys: Towards a Videogame that Trains Rhythm and Visual Attention for Dyslexia

  Mikel Ostiz-Blanco, Marie Lallier, Sergi Grau, Luz Rello, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Manuel Carreiras · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018)

  This demo paper describes Jellys, a video game designed to train two cognitive components linked to reading development — auditory rhythm perception and visual attention — as an intervention for children with dyslexia. The research is grounded in evidence that the cognitive…

  dyslexia · serious games · game accessibility · reading accessibility · visual attention

• Video Gaming for the Vision Impaired

  Manohar Swaminathan, Sujeath Pareddy, Tanuja Sunil Sawant, Shubi Agarwal · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018)

  This Microsoft Research demo paper presents the Responsive Spatial Audio Cloud (ReSAC), a novel interaction toolkit designed to make mainstream video games accessible to people with visual impairments. The research is motivated by the finding that visually impaired people want…

  blindness · game accessibility · spatial audio · sonification · 3D sound

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