DragonIce: developing a full-body interaction application to promote and assess prosocial behavior in children

Delgado Rueda, Óscar

DragonIce: developing a full-body interaction application to promote and assess prosocial behavior in children

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Delgado Rueda, Ó. DragonIce: developing a full-body interaction application to promote and assess prosocial behavior in children. 2023. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58086

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Abstract

New technologies, such as full-body Mixed Reality systems, and the affinity that children have for it, have made it possible to develop more engaging and dynamic learning experiences for children with and without autism. Therefore, the objective of this work is to develop a full-body interaction application to promote (first level of the experience) and evaluate (second level of the experience) prosocial behavior in children with and without autism. Through ‘synchronous’ movements from the first level of the experience, prosociality is achieved. About the objectives, more specifically, the first subgoal is to make code improvements to achieve a more stable version and visual improvements to enhance the player's interaction in the first level. These code improvements consist in creating a better structure, distributing the code in different scripts and creating methods that manage the scene efficiently. The second sub-objective is to develop the second level of the game through cooperative design with the multidisciplinary team of the Full-Body Interaction Lab (FuBIntLab) and through co-design sessions with children between 8-10 years of age. The observations made during the usability study show how the system allows children to play satisfactorily in both experiences (first and second level). Therefore, the application can be used by the FuBIntLab to promote and evaluate prosocial behavior in children.