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Prism, a Game to Promote Autism Acceptance Among Elementary School Students

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Serious Games (JCSG 2018)

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Prism was developed to help neurotypical children aged 8 to 10 empathize with their peers who have autism. It is a digital game for the children to play, paired with a discussion framework for instructors that takes the children through the game and how it relates to the children’s everyday life. In this paper we describe the development of the game and discussion framework, iteratively working with the stakeholders and interacting with a subject matter expert to create the full experience within 15 weeks.

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Ridima Ramesh, Xueyang Wang, Daniel Wolpow, Yidi Zhu, Yutian Zheng, Michael Christel & Scott Stevens

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  1. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Augusto Garcia-Agundez

  3. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Thomas Tregel

  4. Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK

    Minhua Ma

  5. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  6. SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway

    Manuel Oliveira

  7. Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Tim Marsh

  8. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Polona Caserman

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Ramesh, R. et al. (2018). Prism, a Game to Promote Autism Acceptance Among Elementary School Students. In: Göbel, S., et al. Serious Games. JCSG 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11243. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02762-9_11

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