Universal Game Based on Traditional Children’s Outdoor Games (original) (raw)

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A universal game, Daruma, has been developed that can be played by both healthy people and people with physical limitations. It is based on the Japanese variation of the traditional outdoor children’s game Red Light, Green Light. We devised two ways to play the game: one is by swinging an arm; the other is by tapping a desk with two fingers. Players can select either of these choices, enabling people with physical limitations to enjoy the game. We conducted experiments to verify their ease of play and to evaluate their degrees of enjoyment and utility. We found that both ways of playing were appropriate for the visually impaired and that healthy people also enjoyed playing Daruma.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
    Teruhisa Nakamura, Nagisa Munekata, Fumihiko Nakamura & Tetsuo Ono
  2. Future University-Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan
    Hitoshi Matsubara

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  1. Teruhisa Nakamura
  2. Nagisa Munekata
  3. Fumihiko Nakamura
  4. Tetsuo Ono
  5. Hitoshi Matsubara

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  1. Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, SP, Brasil
    Junia Coutinho Anacleto
  2. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2356 Main Mall, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Sidney Fels
  3. School of Computing, Queen’s University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    Nicholas Graham
  4. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, L1H 7K4, Oshawa, ON, Canada
    Bill Kapralos
  5. Northeastern University, 02115,, Boston, MA, USA
    Magy Saif El-Nasr
  6. University of Saskatchewan, S7H S7W, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
    Kevin Stanley

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Nakamura, T., Munekata, N., Nakamura, F., Ono, T., Matsubara, H. (2011). Universal Game Based on Traditional Children’s Outdoor Games. In: Anacleto, J.C., Fels, S., Graham, N., Kapralos, B., Saif El-Nasr, M., Stanley, K. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011. ICEC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8\_7

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