The outcomes of the games will be developed through research, development and a working relationship with an Occupational Therapist. This relationship will produce knowledge and understanding to develop games to meet specific needs. Once gaining this information brainstorming and concept ideas would be developed prototype games with the idea of getting feedback from the therapist and child. This feedback would show how effective the game is and how it interacted with its environment. The games would then be refined and developed so they target the different skills of the child and the areas the OT wishes to access.
Along with the product, developed instructions and outlines of the benefits of the game/s would also be created. These outlines and benefits would be outline in a created website and designed catalogue for distribution.
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- Tony
- Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
- I am age 25 and a student from the University of Otago. I am currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Design Studies and minoring in Music. I am in my final year of study and am initiated in four design papers for the year and one full time music composition paper. I have previously studied towards a Diploma in Architectural technology and have worked as an Architectural Draughts-person as well a taught out of school music for yr7-yr10 classes. I got the idea of creating games for occupational therapists while travelling overseas with my sister who is an occupational therapist. During sometime in a museum my sister saw a memory game. She said, “I could use a game like this”. I asked the question “why?” and she replied “it would be really good to use with my children, for assessing and developing areas such as fine motor skills, hand eye co-ordination, memory recall, visual stimulation, positioning, in-hand manipulation and manoeuvring items around themselves.” Through this inspiration I decided to design and develop games to aid in this process. My name in Tony Zwies.
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