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An increasing number of children are suffering from autism or other psychological disorders. These children have difficulties in social interactions or communications, i.e. interpreting emotions or non-verbal expressions. In the framework of the Games4Resilience Lab at the University of Vienna we developed a computer game for autism therapy, as a joint effort between Clinical Child Psychology and Computer Science. Since none of the existing HTML5-based game engines proved to be usable, we implemented our own web game engine Jumru 5s based on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, having been especially developed for serious games. Furthermore, we introduce the serious game EmoJump,being implemented with our framework and aiming to improve emotion recognition skills.
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Schweiger, N., Meusburger, K., Hlavacs, H., Sprung, M. (2014). Jumru 5s – A Game Engine for Serious Games. In: Ma, M., Oliveira, M.F., Baalsrud Hauge, J. (eds) Serious Games Development and Applications. SGDA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8778. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11623-5_10
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