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Aiding speech-impaired people using Nintendo DS game console

Shirali Shahreza, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2008

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1145/1389586.1389681
  3. Publisher: 2008
  4. Abstract:
  5. By rapid growth of technology in recent years, many services are provided for disabled people. Using wireless devices such as mobile phones in healthcare is a new idea which is gained attracted by some developers in recent years. On the other hand, nowadays game consoles are not only for playing games, but also have more functions such as using for education. Considering the above mentioned facts, this paper proposes a method to aid speech-impaired children using Nintendo DS Game console. This method helps the speech-impaired children which are not capable of using sign language well to communicate with others until they learn sign language well. Because the Nintendo DS is the most popular and best selling handheld game console, this method can cover a wide range of users. Also this method can encourage the children to repeat the spoken words and learns them to read some words. Copyright 2008 ACM
  6. Keywords:
  7. Dielectric relaxation ; Linguistics ; Telecommunication equipment ; Game console ; Healthcare ; Nintendo DS ; Sign-language ; Speech-impaired people ; Game theory
  8. Source: 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, Athens, 16 July 2008 through 18 July 2008 ; 2008 ; 9781605580678 (ISBN)
  9. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1389586.1389681