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Internet and Accessible Entertainment

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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Young people with disabilities should be entitled to use technology for entertainment, but research and development in IT and the disabled has not typically focused on pleasurable activities. It is therefore important to set up guidelines that facilitate accessibility, develop good examples of accessible computer games, and not least, utilize the great potential of technology to include persons with different requirements.

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  1. Media Lunde Tollefsen AS, Tevlingveien 15, 1081, Oslo, Norway

    Morten Tollefsen & Are Flyen

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Tollefsen, M., Flyen, A. (2006). Internet and Accessible Entertainment. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_59

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