Circle Game Collaborative--Freddie the Frog

The Ohio State University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Cognitive Impairment; Physical Disability

Treatments: Other: Gameplay between parent and child or adolescent with or without a disability

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05522946

2020B0306

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Sex: All

Ages: 5+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Group 1: Children without disabilities between the ages of 5-9 years. Any parent/caregiver to the child

Group 2: Adolescents with mild to moderate physical or cognitive disability between the ages of 10-17 years. Any parent/caregiver to the child

Group 3: Adolescents with moderate to severe physical and/or cognitive disability between the ages of 10-17 years. Any parent/caregiver to the child

Exclusion criteria

All groups:

• Parents who do not understand and speak English
• Parents with a disability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 3 patient groups

Parent and child without disability

Experimental group

Description:

Parent and child will play the game on the iPad using the sensors provided.

Treatment:

Other: Gameplay between parent and child or adolescent with or without a disability

Parent and adolescent with mild to moderate cognitive or physical disability

Experimental group

Description:

Parent and adolescent will play the game on the iPad using the sensors provided.

Treatment:

Other: Gameplay between parent and child or adolescent with or without a disability

Parent and adolescent with moderate to severe cognitive and/or physical disability

Experimental group

Description:

Parent and adolescent will play the game on the iPad using the sensors provided.

Treatment:

Other: Gameplay between parent and child or adolescent with or without a disability