Advances in Game Accessibility

Paper review: Advances in Game Accessibility from 2005 to 2010
Westin, T., Bierre, K., Grammenos, D. & Hinn, M.

Published in: C. Stephanidis (Ed.): Universal Access in HCI, Part II, HCII 2011, LNCS 6766, pp. 400–409, 2011. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

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This document summarizes published research literature between 2005 and 2010 on game accessibility. The review organizes accessibility research by the type of disability and alternate feedback modality.

Reduced vision is accommodated using auditory or tactile (haptic) inputs (Savadis et al., 2007; Atkinson et al., 2006; Archambault & Olivier, 2005; White et al., 2008; Gutschmidt et al., 2010; Sepchat et al., 2006; Archambault, Guady & Meisenberger, (nd); Roden & Parberry, 2005; Sanchez & Saenz, 2005; Morelli et al., 2010; Oren et al., 2008; Sanchez & Elias, 2007; Folmer et al., 2009; Pascale et al., 2008; Glinert & Wyse, 2007; Miller et al., 2007; Allman et al., 2009; Yuan & Folmer, 2008; Sanchez et al., 2009).

Impaired hearing receives feedback through haptics (Brashear et al., 2006).

Motor disabilities feedback comes through adapted controls (Lepicard et al., 2007), speech (Sporka et al., 2006), or both modalities (Norte & Lobo, 2008).

The authors highlight game interaction models: (Archambault et al., 2008; Grammenos et al., 2007; Grammenos et al., 2009; Ossmann et al., 2008; Yuan et al., 2010; Torrente et al., 2009).

Game accessibility guidelines are identified: (Archambault et al., 2008; Ossmann et al., 2008; Tollefsen & Flyen, 2006).

Results of selected user surveys (Trewin et al., 2008; Trewin et al., 2008) are included.