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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"interactive play"”.
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Treatment implications of a functional analysis of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in young children
… MVPA and environmental events (i.e., Attention, Interactive Play, Alone, and Escape), which were alternated with a control condition in a multielement design. Results of the current study indicated that all four participants were most active in the Interactive Play condition and the percentage of …
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The Effects of a Tactile Prompting Device on the Requesting Behavior of a Child with Autism
… child with autism to recruit teacher models and play suggestions. A multiple baseline and reversal was used to assess the effects of the RCT across three play contexts. The results showed increases in the number of requests for models and suggestions as well as increases in the duration of …
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The future of tabletop games
… designers divergent affordances and provide players with different kinds of pleasures. Tabletop games excel at creating rich and immediate social interactions. They require players to enact game mechanics themselves resulting in powerful internalization of a game's dynamics. Digital games, on …
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Mediators: Participatory Collective Intelligence for Multi-Stakeholder Urban Decision-Making
… decision-making process is abstracted as a multiplayer board game modeling the check-and-balance dynamics among stakeholders with differing values. Players are encouraged to balance short-term interests and long-term resilience, and evaluate the risks and benefits of collaboration. The system is …
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Fostering Verbal and Play Interactions in Heritage Language: A Naturalistic Intervention Mediated by Siblings for Autistic Children
… siblings may help bolster language and play development in autistic children (Akers et al., 2018; Celiberti & Harris, 1993; Coe et al., 1991; Glugatch & Machalicek, 2021; Oppenheim-Leaf et al., 2012; Spector & Charlop, 2018), though consideration of culturally and linguistically diverse …
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Supporting fathering through infant massage
… Men often develop this relationship through interactive play which usually occurs later in their child's development. As a result, fathers often feel dissatisfied with their ability to form a close attachment in the early post-partum period, which in turn may increase their stress level. …
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Mitigating the Effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder Through Architecture
… a community restaurant/cooking classroom; an interactive play area for children; a SAD retreat for light therapy; as well as an external sauna located on the water. These spaces will encourage interaction among people in the community year-round. A dynamic and unique exterior form incorporates …
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Lifelong Personalization for Social Robot Learning Companions: Interactive Student Modeling Across Tasks and Over Time
… for rapidly learning student models from interactive play in each game, and a method for transferring each game’s learned student model to the other via a novel instance-weighting protocol based on task similarity. By evaluating new methods for flexible, adaptive student personalization …
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Forgiveness, Freedom and the Inmate Issue
… compassion back into humanity.</p> <p>The Interactive Text-Based Video Game</p> <p> The purpose of <em>Inmate 001</em>, as creative capstone project is grounded in the notion of being an advocate for the incarcerated and unheard which stemmed from a childhood in a household with law …
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Pretend Play at Home: Creating An Educationally Enriched Environment for Emergent Literacy Among Preschool-Aged Children
This thesis will illustrate how pretend play can be used in the home for educational purposes. The major emphasis of the work will be emergent literacy, however, application principles can be applied in all subject areas. Parents who desire to expand their child's literacy skills while exposing the …