Uma estratégia para suportar interação humanocomputador de crianças com deficiências nos membros superiores por meio de dispositivo vestível.

Abstract

The features of immersion, involvement and motivation have turned serious games into an important tool in the medical field. However, there are people who, due to some physical disability, cannot or do not want to play. In this perspective, the study presents a strategy to support the human-computer interaction of children with disabilities in the upper limbs through a wearable device, which aims to expand the use of digital games by target audience. Thus, in the long term, it can help to accept the motor limitation, motivate patients to use the disabled limb more frequently, develop and create abilities, raise potential, learn new technologies, improve cognitive, emotional and physical aspects, socialization and leisure. Throughout the development of this study, all the functionalities of the wearable Myo device were used to control a puzzle, in order to promote interaction between the individual and the game. In this context, the game is controlled by the disabled limb through Myo. To validate the research, the developed game was made available to a group with physical disabilities in the upper limbs, aged between eight and fifteen years, of the Association for Assistance to the Disabled Child (AADC). It was observed that the participants of the research were able to expand the access to games using the Myo device and they felt more motivated to play with it. In the long term, it is expected to contribute to the motivation of patients, through technological innovations, so that the process of promoting body awareness might be more interactive, playful and attractive.