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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ATTENTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR CONTROLLING A TELEROBOTIC HAPTIC SYSTEM TO SUPPORT PLAY IN CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
DownloadSpring 2019
BACKGROUND: Children with physical impairments may face difficulties when playing because of limitations in reaching and handling objects. Children with physical disabilities may have limited opportunities to play, and they may experience negative impacts on their social, emotional, or...
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2011-12-18
Corrigan, M., Adams, K.D., Cook, A.M.
Children with disabilities may have decreased ability to play, and thus less opportunity to acquire associated motor, cognitive, and linguistic skills. There is evidence that robotic play may help children acquire those skills, and our overall goal is to facilitate integration of spontaneous...
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Everyone's just like, they're fine, and when in reality, are we? Stories about recess from children experiencing disability
DownloadFall 2020
Recess can be a valuable and significant experience in children’s lives that provides opportunities for outdoor free play and engagement with peers; however children experiencing disability often withdraw or are excluded during recess. The recess context has received little attention from an...
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Exploring the cultural construction of children's play in Thailand: an action research study with the Foundation for Child Development
DownloadFall 2011
Children’s play has emerged as a global discourse (Fleer, 2009). Studies from diverse theoretical traditions have examined the role of play in child development; however, the dominant discourse of play has largely privileged Western European-heritage cultural practices, and as a result childhood...
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2009
Our personal and professional lives draw us to a shared interest in ‘identity’ and ‘relationships’, and our understanding is shaped by our lives as narrative inquirers. As we struggle to name this complexity we begin to play with metaphors; the metaphor of ‘kites’, and thus string, kite and kite...
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2012-03-08
Ce mémoire décrit les étapes suivies qui ont mené à la création de trois cours de robotiques, ELT1130, ELT2140 et EL3150 du programme d’études des professionnelles et technologiques de l’Alberta pour le Centre francophone d’éducation à distance et Alberta Distance Learning Centre. Il mettra en...
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Lego Robot Control via a Speech Generating Communication Device for Play and Educational Activities
Download2011-12-05
Yantha, J., Cook, A.M., Adams, K.D.
Children have utilized switch adapted infrared controllers to manipulate play objects with inexpensive Lego™ robots in order to learn new and demonstrate existing skills. Since some speech generating devices (SGDs) have infrared output, the opportunity arises for children to have an integrated...