scholarly journals What Children with Neuromotor Disabilities Need to Play with Technological Games

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 9886
Author(s):  
Roberta Nossa ◽  
Matteo Porro ◽  
Odoardo Picciolini ◽  
Matteo Malosio ◽  
Simone Pittaccio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Game Activity ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Impaired Children

Game activity is fundamental for children’s cognitive and social development. During recent years, technology development has led to changes in several areas, including the ludic one. However, while in the literature, there are plenty of studies that report the importance of technology-based games in rehabilitation program, little attention has been paid to their role as pure entertainment. In contrast, the market does not provide videogames that are engaging, accessible, and inclusive. In this context, a survey was distributed to families who have a child with neuromotor limitations to investigate how these children deal with play, in particular with videogames, and what the requirements are for accessible and inclusive videogames. FightTheStroke distributed the questionnaire to families with a child with neuromotor impairments in April 2020. Fifty-six families responded to the survey. The answers revealed that children generally manifest positive feelings when playing with videogames, especially with cooperative ones, even if they are not fully accessible. The survey also collected user needs and suggestions from families about the design of videogames for neuromotor-impaired children. Guidelines derived from the survey are reported for the development of entertaining, inclusive, and accessible videogames, playable by children with neuromotor disabilities.

DIGITALIZATION: THE LIMITS OF GROWTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
D. V. IVANOV ◽  
◽  
A. I. ANDREEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The paper shows that the main limit to the growth of "digitalization" in the XXI century may be not so much the limits of technology development, but rather the difficulties with staffing such a knowledge-intensive process as digital development. This problem is mainly associated with a decrease in the rate of growth of the World's population, which is determined by other social, economic, and factors. The personnel problem of the development of the digital economy is based on the need to maintain the number of researchers and the intensity of solving the problems of economic and social development through the creation and implementation of digital technologies. Solving this problem in the coming decades may face a chronic shortage of specialists to implement the most ambitious plans.

Transhumanism — Robotics Interactions

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Sanja Vujačić ◽  
Yasser Alayli
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
The Real ◽  
Technological Improvement ◽  
Management Application ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Economic Inequalities

Thinking wrong that the humanistic ideal has already been realized, transhumanism is promoting the liberation of man by progressive overcoming of his own biological boundaries in order to improve his physical and mental abilities, as well as his life extension. From interaction between biomimetic robotics and transhumanism augmented man was born. But a smart management application is still missing, that one for a future society, in which men and supermen will live together and which would allow technological improvement to everyone and halt the accelerated process of deepening socio-economic inequalities. That's the reason why the transhumanism is often experienced as an opponent and competitor to humanism, same as the new technology development which is often perceived as the goal in itself - as a phenomenon which is not in the service of the real needs of social development. Consequently, It is urgent to move from simple thinking (speculations, preferences and beliefs) to the complex one: proposing hypotheses and solutions, creating relationships and observing interactions, seeking criteria, relying on verified facts and self-correction practices.

A Land Imaging Architecture Scorecard to Support Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Vadnais ◽  
Erin Dale ◽  
Zhuoting Wu
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Societal Benefit ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Near Term ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
Goals And Objectives

<p>Investment decisions on land imaging data buys, partnering opportunities, technologies, and system acquisition are becoming increasingly complex as the number of Earth-observing satellites increases rapidly, aircraft sensors and unmanned aerial system platforms improve, the community of data providers and users grows, and the pace of technology development, computing, and data storage expansion accelerates. Building on a growing foundation of user needs, the USGS is developing an architecture scorecard system comparing capabilities to user needs to meet the following objectives:  (1) help identify gaps in meeting needs, (2) evaluate proposed and notional land imaging architectures, and (3) study the evolution of enterprise-wide land imaging capability as existing systems reach end of life and new systems become available over timescales of years to a decade. This flexible evaluation system can adapt to changing land imaging needs and capabilities and will evolve from an early, basic capacity to support near-term decisions to increasingly higher fidelity to enable more comprehensive and precise assessments under conditions of increasing complexity. The system will support the evaluation of land imaging systems as standalone capabilities or as suites of capabilities, beginning with a core architecture and expanding to supporting and proposed capabilities. It will be easily adaptable to different evaluative frameworks such as societal benefit areas, organizations, departmental strategic goals and objectives, and technologies (e.g., lidar, radar, optical, satellite, or aircraft).</p>

Perceptual-Motor Performance and the Social Development of Visually Impaired Children

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C. Sleeuwenhoek ◽  
R.D. Boter ◽  
A. Vermeer
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceptual Motor Performance ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

This article presents a literature survey and conceptual model of the perceptual-motor performance of visually impaired children in relation to their social development. It examines the relationships between visual impairment and orientation, visual impairment and mobility, and motor performance and social integration.

scholarly journals Effects of a prosody rehabilitation program on expression of affect in preschool children with hearing impairment: a randomized trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ossama A. Sobhy ◽  
Rania M. Abdou ◽  
Sara M. Ibrahim ◽  
Nesrine H. Hamouda
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Case Group ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Group B ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Post Therapy ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract Background Children with hearing impairment are deprived of their source of linguistic input which in turn leads to linguistic and prosodic deficits that negatively affect language and social development. Linguistic aspects other than prosody have received considerable attention in studies concerned with hearing-impaired children with little literature addressing how to improve their affective prosodic deficits. The aim of the current study is to adapt and apply the “prosody treatment program” and detect the effect of prosodic rehabilitation on affect production and language development in Egyptian hearing-impaired children. This study was conducted on 21 children with sensorineural hearing loss. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups, group A (cases) and group B (control) by block randomization. The subjects of the study were evaluated pre and post-therapy by a protocol for assessment of their prosodic skills using subjective and objective measures. Both groups received the usual auditory and language rehabilitation therapy. The case group additionally received rehabilitation for prosody using the “prosody treatment program” for 3 months. Results Results showed a statistically significant improvement in the subjective scores and most of the objective scores of the assessed affective prosodic skills when comparing pre-therapy and post-therapy scores in the cases group, and when comparing both studied groups post-therapy. Conclusions Prosodic training has an additional benefit evident in improving affective prosodic skills of hearing-impaired children compared to conventional therapy alone with a positive effect on their linguistic development. Trial registration The trial is registered at www.clinicaltrials.govNCT04691830. Registered under the name “Adaptation of a Rehabilitation Program for Prosody and its Application on Egyptian Hearing Impaired Children”. Retrospectively registered:

Effects of Early Intervention on Hearing Impaired Children

1988 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Reich Musselman ◽  
Anne Keeton Wilson ◽  
Peter H. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Language Measure ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

A longitudinal study was conducted of 118 children with severe and profound hearing losses-Children were first tested when they were between 3 and 5 years and again in 3 or 4 years, using measures of receptive and expressive spoken language, receptive language in the child's primary educational modality, receptive and expressive mother-child communication, and social development. A multivariate design was used to investigate the effects of age of intervention, program intensity, and parent instruction on the children's linguistic and social development. Early intervention was associated with higher receptive language scores in the first, but not in the final year. Age of intervention was not related to any other language measure or the measure of social development. Consistent effects were not associated with program intensity or parent instruction.

Research on Pronunciation Assessment Detection Method Based on 3D Modeling and Sensor Technology

2015 ◽  
Vol 738-739 ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Li Juan Shi ◽  
Xiu Xia Yu ◽  
Jian Zhao ◽  
Qin Sheng Du
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Voice Input ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

It is necessary for hearing-impaired children after hearing compensation for language rehabilitation, Rehabilitation evaluation system can timely understanding of the effect of rehabilitation, rehabilitation program reasonable.This paper presents multiple feedback method and system for hearing-impaired children pronunciation evaluation based on 3D technology, information technology, the use of modern means of measuring real-time speech. The evaluation system collect the tongue palate, lip face and voice pronunciation information of hearing-impaired children through sensor and voice input devices.The reference value to compare the data with the standard output,The system can overcome the shortcomings of traditional method is subjective.To assess abnormal and the degree of abnormal of hearing-impaired children s function. Provide the basis for the development of language rehabilitation training plan, establish a scientific evaluation method and evaluation system.

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