NCT05522946

Circle Game Collaborative--Freddie the Frog

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Families who have children with disabilities experience more challenges in interacting with their children than families who have children without disabilities. This increased level of burden results in higher rates of emotional stress and hardship for those families. Motivated by the idea of making deeper connections between children with disabilities and their parents, our gaming platform is designed around two key concepts - human touch and collaborative play. Using wearable sensors, conductive fabrics, microcontrollers, and wireless communication, our gaming platform will register and interpret "touch" as a way to interface with game apps and the devices they are installed on. In other words, touch is translated into player input. Thus, rather than interact with an iPad directly, children and their parents interact with each other instead. Our platform engages both parents and children with disabilities equally in order to better focus on their shared physical expression. As touch can be registered from any part of the body, our platform can be used with children with any type of disability and allows for both active and passive participation by children with a severe disability.

Conditions

• Cognitive Impairment
• Physical Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Gameplay between parent and child or adolescent with or without a disability	Parent and child or adolescent will play the game using the provided sensors for 10-15 minutes total. Depending on the cognitive and/or physical ability of the child or adolescent, the two may take turns wearing the sensors or if the child or adolescent does not have the physical or cognitive ability to deliberately touch the sensor, then the child or adolescent will wear the sensors and the parent will touch the sensors in order to move the game forward.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-17
• Primary completion: 2023-05-01
• Completion: 2023-12-01
• First posted: 2022-08-31
• Last updated: 2023-06-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States