[games_access] Games and Physio

[Barrie Ellis]

Interesting article. I've known of other work regarding using games 
alongside physio. Namco built a controller to encourage a disabled man to 
develop his upper body strength to play games (pictured below). Reminds me 
also of talks at a conference I attended called "Enter 2000" years ago, 
covering assistive technology and Virtual Reality with some really good 
work.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2001/07/30/smallb1.html - is a 
good read too for people interested in adapted controllers, which details 
difficulties with interesting physios etc. in rehab + games.

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reid Kimball" <rkimball at gmail.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: [games_access] A quadriplegic gamer


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/13746091.htm

Article talks about a quadriplegic gamer that thinks the Nintendo
Revolution controller will be great for him.

-Reid
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