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- Papers from the AAATE 2013 conferencePublication . Encarnação, Pedro
- Take home messagesPublication . Encarnação, Pedro; Ray-Kaeser, Sylvie; Bianquin, Nicole; Besio, Serenella
- Play for disabled Children in Taiwan and Hong Kong: parent perspectivesPublication . Encarnação, Pedro Miguel Martins; Beckett, Angharad E.; Chiu, Chun-Yu; Ng, Simon T.M.This article discusses the findings of an empirical study, the first to investigate Taiwanese and Hong Kong parents’ perspectives on their disabled children’s play. The study employed an online survey to explore parents’ views on (a) the value of play for their child; (b) their child’s experiences of play (e.g. where and with whom they play); c) what, if any, barriers their child experiences in/to play. Our analysis shows that disabled children living in Taiwan and Hong Kong face many of the same barriers to play as disabled children elsewhere (e.g. in the West), but that these barriers have distinct ‘local formations’ resulting from, for example, high-density urban-living, family-based welfare systems, prevailing gendered family roles/relations, persistent social stigma towards disabled people and their families and intense valuing of academic achievement within Chinese cultures. We present this article as an original contribution to Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies, to Global Disability Studies and Play Studies. The article concludes by mapping an agenda for further research into access to and inclusion in play for disabled children living in East Asia.
- Guidelines for supporting children with disabilities' play: methodologies, tools, and contextsPublication . Encarnação, Pedro; Ray-Kaeser, Sylvie; Bianquin, NicoleAll children want to play. This is also true for children with disabilities. Facilitating their engagement in play, whatever children’s capacities, is a central premise of people who view play as fundamental for their development and well-being. Play for the sake of play, just for recreational pleasure and enjoyment, without any secondary goal. In this book you’ll find guidelines to support children with disabilities’ play. They can be a useful tool for ensuring that children with disabilities can fully enjoy their right to play, for improving the quality of children’s play, enhancing their play satisfaction and participation, and reducing play deprivation. Written in a lay-person language, providing ready-to-use information, this book is for parents, teachers, rehabilitation professionals, toy manufacturers, policy makers and in general for all of those interested in the topic of play for children with disabilities. This publication results from the research and work of a transdisciplinary team, all participants in the COST Action “LUDI - Play for Children with Disabilities”.
- Will artificial intelligence be a blessing or concern in assistive robots for play?Publication . Adams, Kim; Encarnação, Pedro; Rios-Rincón, Adriana M.; Cook, Al M.The recent advances and popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) offer exciting possibilities to improve technology but they also raise concerns. In this paper, we use our research to present the potential benefits of using AI in assistive technology for children with disabilities to access play, and examine potential ethical concerns surrounding data required by AI algorithms. Since play is a key factor in child well-being and cognitive development, secondary disabilities may arise as a consequence of motor impairments. Assistive robots for augmentative manipulation can be instrumental in providing children with physical disabilities play opportunities, but we need to take a principled and user-centered approach to technical innovations.
- What assistive technologies exist to enable participation in play?Publication . Encarnação, Pedro; Jansens, Rianne
- ‘It’s my right to play too!’ Play for disabled children in Taiwan and Hong KongPublication . Encarnação, Pedro Miguel Martins; Beckett, Angharad E.; Chiu, Chun-Yu; Ng, Simon T.M.
- LUDI. Play for children with disabilitiesPublication . Encarnação, Pedro; Saridaki, Maria
- Using virtual robot-mediated play activities to assess cognitive skillsPublication . Encarnação, Pedro; Alvarez, Liliana; Rios, Adriana; Maya, Catarina; Adams, Kim; Cook, AlPurpose: To evaluate the feasibility of using virtual robot-mediated play activities to assess cognitive skills. Method: Children with and without disabilities utilized both a physical robot and a matching virtual robot to perform the same play activities. The activities were designed such that successfully performing them is an indication of understanding of the underlying cognitive skills. Results: Participants' performance with both robots was similar when evaluated by the success rates in each of the activities. Session video analysis encompassing participants' behavioral, interaction and communication aspects revealed differences in sustained attention, visuospatial and temporal perception, and self-regulation, favoring the virtual robot. Conclusions: The study shows that virtual robots are a viable alternative to the use of physical robots for assessing children's cognitive skills, with the potential of overcoming limitations of physical robots such as cost, reliability and the need for on-site technical support.