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APRehab: a methodology for serious games design oriented to psychomotor rehabilitation in children with hearing impairments

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In this work, we present APRehab, a methodology for the design of serious games for psychomotor rehabilitation of children with hearing impairments. This methodology aims to guide developers in the construction of interactive experiences for therapeutic processes taking into account the identification and design of the formal elements, the therapeutic activities to carry out and the interaction. The purpose of this work is to describe the design of the methodology and the validation applied to analyze the level of compliance and satisfaction it offers.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been partially supported by the project TIN2016-81143-R (AEI/FEDER, EU) funded by MICINN, Government of Spain and OCDS-CUD2016/13 funded by OCDS at the University of the Balearic Islands. In addition, we would like to thank the University of San Buenaventura and the University of Cauca (Colombia) for supporting the project.

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  1. Universidad de San Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia

    Victor M. Peñeñory & Álvaro F. Bacca

  2. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

    Cesar A. Collazos

  3. Universitat de les illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Cristina Manresa-Yee

  4. Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain

    Habib M. Fadoun

  5. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Valparaiso, Chile

    Sandra P. Cano

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Peñeñory, V.M., Collazos, C.A., Bacca, Á.F. et al. APRehab: a methodology for serious games design oriented to psychomotor rehabilitation in children with hearing impairments. Univ Access Inf Soc 20, 255–264 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-020-00728-5

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