[games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade

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Hi Guys!

Happy New Year!!! All the best!

One of my resolutions includes getting active again in this community. 2008 
was yet another year with several changes and developments for me personally 
and because of these I was not able to be very active in the field of game 
accessibility. However, with my (new) research position at the Utrecht 
School of the Arts, I wish to put much of my focus back on game 
accessibility research and design again. And participate in the chats and 
conversations of this SIG again :)
I'm currently busy with writing proposals and aplpying for grants for 
(national) game accessibility-related research projects. If anyone is 
interested in setting up GA-related (EU or other international) projects and 
needs a partner, let me know through this list ;)
One thing that I would like to put on the 2009 SIG agenda is discussing a 
possible GA-related research trajectory/line. I got the feeling that one of 
the reasons the body of knowledge in this field is developing 'slowly' is 
because of there are many research initiatives but not that many consecutive 
research projects with a clear direction out there. I've only just started 
with looking at the research that has been done from this point of view so I 
may be wrong - that's why I would like to put it into the group ;)

Greets,

Richard

ps: Michelle: all the best tomorrow!!!




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade


> Happy New Year to all!
>
> I have surgery Monday but I'm looking forward to spending some recovery 
> time checking out the new projects -- an accessible SL sounds like a 
> reason to download SL again! :)
>
> PS -- In mid-January online SIG meetings will start up again. Let's make 
> 2009 the year we really hit the scene with Accessibility and see some big 
> changes!
>
> Hope everyone is well!
> Michelle
>
>>Ditto Happy New Year everyone on the list. Hope you all have a great one.
>>
>>Text Second Life sounds like a really ambitious project, Eelke. Great 
>>stuff. It would be great to hear some feedback from users at some point.
>>
>>People may be interested in a little on the past of accessible gaming 
>>here:
>>
>>http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/2009/01/ate-arcade-rca-studio-ii.html
>>
>>I'm hoping to guide people step by step into using emulation to make 
>>previously inaccessible games more accessible. Early days (I'm at 1977 at 
>>the minute)!
>>
>>All the best...
>>
>>Barrie
>>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Eelke Folmer" <eelke.folmer at gmail.com>
>>To: <games_access at igda.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:59 AM
>>Subject: [games_access] Happy new year + TextSL Beta
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I wish everybody a happy new year.
>>>
>>>We recently released a Beta version of TextSL which is a text client
>>>for Second Life which can be accessed with the Jaws screen reader and
>>>which can be downloaded on:
>>>http://www.textsl.org
>>>
>>>Cheers Eelke
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Eelke Folmer
>>>Assistant Professor
>>>Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>>>University of Nevada, Reno
>>>http://www.eelke.com
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