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Establishing a Serious Game on Relationship Boundaries for People with Developmental Disabilities

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This research project aims to explore the gamification of information gathering related to social-emotional skills that are directly relevant to personal relationship boundaries. The target population of this game is adults with developmental disabilities. This game, titled “Boundaries,” was developed because of the little to no supportive resources of sexual education for this community. Ten people with developmental disabilities later tested the game and provided feedback. Our results can be generalized into design suggestions for games like Boundaries as a vehicle to provide unique insights that can lead to awareness on issues that are faced by those with developmental disabilities in particular as well as those with other disabilities.

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ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
October 2020
764 pages
ISBN:9781450371032
DOI:10.1145/3373625
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  1. Boundaries
  2. Design Evaluation
  3. Developmental Disability
  4. Public Health
  5. Relationships
  6. Serious Games
  7. User Studies

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