Interactive Educational Games for Autistic Children with Agent-Based System
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This article addresses design issues that are relevant in the Autism project which aims at developing a computer games, for diagnosis and training of the children with autism and accompanying mental disorders. This approach is put in the broader context of interactive environments, which computer games are a special case. The characteristic of our approach is that it has the capability of user adaptation. The user adaptation is based on the model they maintain the observation of user interactions, the knowledge of therapists and the case-based reasoning paradigm.
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