My garden of emotions: a game to understand facial expression for autistic children and adolescents
Abstract
This work presents a game entirely in Portuguese for teaching emotional skills to children/adolescents with autism. The game "Meu Jardim de Emoções" (My Garden of Emotions) is made up of everyday situations for children and adolescents, where the player must select the best emotion portrayed in the animation, through the name of the emotion and its respective facial representation. Many of the problems with autistic people in detecting emotions are due to their lack of understanding of other views and the realization that people have different perspectives. Thus, in My Garden of Emotions the player is introduced to everyday situations to understand the different aspects of emotions and thus improve their quality of life and social interactions.
Keywords:
Autistic spectrum, understanding of facial expressions, ASD, educational games
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L. A. Vismara and S. J. Rogers, “Behavioral treatments in autism spectrum disorder: What do we know?” Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 447–468, 2010.
Published
2021-10-18
How to Cite
OLIVEIRA, Samara Ester Santos; ARANTES, Ana; MOTA, Virgínia Fernandes.
My garden of emotions: a game to understand facial expression for autistic children and adolescents. In: EDUCATION TRACK – FULL PAPERS - BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER GAMES AND DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT (SBGAMES), 20. , 2021, Online.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
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p. 549-555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbgames_estendido.2021.19688.
