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Mobile Gamebook for Visually Impaired People

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014)

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The goal of the project was to create a mobile game application for Android OS platform that follows the rules of playing a gamebook. Developed application interacts with user using touch and speech interface, which is crucial in case of blind users. The paragraphs and general game data should be stored in external XML document. Game implementation introduced a form of entertainment for users with vision disabilities and established a speech and tactile interface implementation, which could be also used in implementation of other games, which target blind players.

Publication supported from the Human Capital Operational Programme co-financed by the European Union from the financial resources of the European Social Fund, project no. POKL.04.01.02-00-209/11; publication co-financed by the Institute of Informatics at Silesian University of Technology, statutory research no. BK/215/Rau2/2013.

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  1. Demian’s Gamebook Web Pages, Frequently Asked Questions, http://www.gamebooks.org/show_faqs.php

  2. Gamebook adventures, http://gamebookadventures.com/

  3. Gartner Inc.: Gartner Says Smartphone Sales Accounted for 55 Percent of Overall Mobile Phone Sales in Third Quarter of 2013 (2013), http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Krzysztof Dobosz, Jakub Ptak, Marcin Wojaczek, Tomasz Depta & Tomasz Fiolka

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  1. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69,, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Deborah Fels

  3. THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2 rue de la liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

    Dominique Archambault

  4. Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Peňáz

  5. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 11/029, Vienna, 1050, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Dobosz, K., Ptak, J., Wojaczek, M., Depta, T., Fiolka, T. (2014). Mobile Gamebook for Visually Impaired People. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_49

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