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Assessing Virtual Reality as a Tool for Support Imagination

J. L. CuestaGabriel LabajoFrancisco AlcantudJ. ArnáizCarmen GayaA. BlanquerIsabel DolzVicenta ÁVilaGerardo Herrera

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Cognitive scienceImaginationComputer scienceHuman lifemedia_common.quotation_subjectmedicineAutismQuality (business)Virtual realityRelation (history of concept)medicine.diseaseObject (philosophy)media_common

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One of the major developments of the second year of human life is the emergence of the ability to pretend (Leslie, 1987). Many children with autism use no pretend play or are impoverished in the quality of their play (Baron-Cohen, 1989). The key factor of our Virtual Reality Software in relation to Pretend Play is the possibility to really show the object transformations we propose when pretending. We hope those technics to drive people with autism to a better understanding of pretense and to enable them to develop a play with more quality.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2002-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_28