2013 Volume 15 Issue 3 Pages 199-208
It is often the case that people with developmental disorders face some difficulty in their daily lives related to the fact that they are not good at operating their own body. The authors have developed two types of training games, through which people with such disorders can activate and improve their body regulatory abilities. All they have to do is just to follow these two steps respectively. The first is to make consciousness of the body center of gravity control. And the second step is to acquire their abilities by keeping "socially-suitable" body posture without paying any special attention to their body. In this report, the development and improvements of the first-step game are described. The game is carefully designed, developed, and improved because ASD people are said to have rather strong resistance against new and inexperienced items. The prototype game was improved twice especially in its length of body holding period, feedback sound, etc. Through these improvements, the game has reached such a level that it can be easily used in lessons at school. Games are thought to be a suitable method for the people with developmental disorders to enhance their abilities. In some cases in our half-year experiment, some increase of social adaptivity of the users was observed through the game sessions.
