Sistema Espressivo Multicanale Interattivo

Funded under: Fondazione CaRi Pistoia

Start date 15 April 2016     End date 31 December 2016

Website (Italian)

Keywords: Multisensory experience; augmented interaction; assistive technology

Project aims at developing an interactive system to be exploited in a rehabilitation program for children with autism spectrum disorder and dyspraxia. The system will be installed at the MAIC Foundation and will support and boost the techniques used by the MAIC Foundation specialists. The system will exploit videogame modailites to promote the autonomy and social inclusion of children (4-14years), developing a multichannel system that, through gestural interaction, helps the subject into the organization of the perception of external stimuli. In particular, the videogame will be organized in different interacion levels: user-avatar, user-therapist and user-user.