Games’ Social Tech Booster

Citation:
Cardoso, Tiago, Vitor Santos, Carolina Santos, and José Barata. "Games’ Social Tech Booster." SGames 2015 - 5th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction and Simulation. 2015.

Date Presented:

September

Abstract:

The society has organized itself towards facing existing social needs like the care for children with Down syndrome, Deafness or Autism Spectrum Disorders, among several other pathologies. As a result, several organizations emerged towards handling these issues, composed of doctors, therapists, psychologists, among other professionals, but excluding technology experts. On the other hand side, the finalist students from technology universities usually have a final course where they have to create a complete project from scratch. This article proposes a method for applying the effort and enthusiasm of such students in the above mentioned social causes through games’ development.