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Rafigh: a living media interface for speech intervention

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CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1817 - 1820

https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557402

Published: 26 April 2014 Publication History

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Digital games can engage children in therapeutic and learning activities. Incorporating living media in these designs can create feelings of empathy and caring in users. We present, Rafigh, a living media interface designed to motivate children with speech disorders to use their speech to care for a living mushroom colony. The mushrooms' growth is used to communicate how much speech is used during interaction.

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