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- Self City -An aid for socially impaired children
in order to enrich their behavioural repertoire
Dialogical Self
(psychology) 24/7 Coachingof Autists
(good practice)
Externalism
(philosophy & neurology)
Position Poverty
Thesis:
Socially emotionally impaired children develop
an internal self with only a few dialogical positions
Consequence:
These children posess a poor behavioural repertoire.
They exhibit inadequate, inflexible, clumsy social behaviour.
People with a autistic spectrum disorder
are appointed a coach who they can call
with their mobile phone 24 hours a day.
These coaches give their clients all
sorts of advice in complex social situations
at school, work or in their private life.
The coach moves into the extern
of the person being
al self
coached
Computer Game
(serious gaming)
In a computer game the situation between
coach and client is duplicated. The player is
confronted with social situations. The player’s
behaviour is monitored and the coach
(represented by a creature which appeals to the player)
gives supplementary advice.
During the computer game play the
player receives advice from the
virtual coach on his or her mobile
phone. The phone is used
in the transfer phase in which the
player learns to exhibit his enriched
behavioural repertoire in real life.
The scenarios for Self City are
developed in close cooperation
with children of the target group
Leo Sluiter
Ronald Hünneman
Some of the assumptions
and principles of the game
were tested in an experiment
in 2nd Life.
Though the test was not far
reaching enough to yield outright
confirmation,
the results were very promising.
