Desarrollo de un audiojuego para niños no videntes, centrado en el aprendizaje narrativo, basado en la metodología SUM.

Abstract

The main focus of this curricular integration work was to implement an audio game "EXPO-CAMINO" for blind children between 8 to 10 years old, through narrative learning in historical events of colonial Quito. The agile SUM methodology was applied for its construction, based on development phases. For the analysis of requirements, techniques such as interview, documentation review, and brainstorming were used. The tools selected were the code editor Visual Studio Code, the programming language PHP for the server side; the C# programming language with the Unity game engine for the scripts, UnityWebRequest for responses to HTTP requests from the Back-End, API Windows Speech for speech recognition, MySQL for database management, Ambeo Orbit library to generate 3D audio in Reaper (digital audio workstation) and Blender to generate 2D animations of the characters. Furthermore, it focused on usability subcharacteristic, one of the 8 characteristics defined by the ISO/IEC Standard 25010 as a quality model. The Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI) questionnaire was taken as a reference, which allowed to measure the learning capacity of the videogame. As a result of this work, a level of learning capacity of 80.4%, was obtained with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 5%, which obtained an acceptable degree of satisfaction. It is concluded that EXPO-CAMINO meets the requirements defined by the user and its learning capacity of 80.4% allowed the players to learn new mechanics easily. Finally, it is recommended for future work to add functionalities that allow users with different physical disabilities to be included.