Making Videogames More Accessible: How? Why? Mick Donegan Interactive Technologies and Games (ITAG) Conference 2014 Health, Disability and Education Dates: Thursday 16 October 2014 - Friday 17 October 2014 Location: The Council House, NG1 2DT, Nottingham, UK

1. Making Videogames More Accessible: How? Why? Mick Donegan

2. Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Design
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education

3. “Gaze Interaction and Applications of Eye Tracking”
“Brain-Computer Interfaces in their ethical, social and cultural contexts”

6. R &D Coordinator

7. Take away….
•What the SpecialEffect charity does
•An insight into the particularly benefits of access to mainstream videogames for disabled people
•Some examples of videogame accessibility features (physical difficulties)
•Where to find out more about videogames accessibility

8. The UK and Ireland

9. The UK and Ireland

10. “Make a
Wish”

11. “Make a
Wish”
Technology

12. …for rehabilitation, communication, friendship, fun, creativity, …

13. Rights of the Child
Article 31 (Leisure, play and culture): “Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities.”

14. Sculpture created with eye movement
Alex
Alex

17. Elliott

18. Christian

19. Charlotte

20. Henry

21. Becky

22. Isaac

23. Arlo

25. Elliott

26. Ben

27. Simon
Everyone is a unique project…

28. ….requiring a unique solution

29. But there are some developers whose options include features that meet us half way.

30. FIFA

31. Reece
Reece

32. Reece
Joystick and two switches

33. Call of Duty

34. Can’t hold ADS (Aim Down Sight) button and shoot at same time.... but can toggle ADS button on and off (‘SCOPE’ switch).
Shaz

36. Dirt 3
Driving assists such as 'Corner Braking' which slows down your car automatically when approaching a corner and 'Auto Steer'

37. Insert screenshot of remapping here
Dirt 3
…also has full button re-mapping which enables people to configure their own controls.

38. Callum

39. Accelerate, brake & steer left & right all mapped to just left analogue joystick

40. Where we try it
Where we apply it

41. Collaborators