CanGame Maker 1.0 Guidebook [PDF]

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CanGame Maker 1.0 Guidebook

SUMÁRIO Presentation

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Guidebook

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Step 1 | Finding the App

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Step 2 | Instalation

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Step 3 | User Profile

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Step 4 | Create PEC

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Step 5 | Play PEC

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Step 6 | Create Routine

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PRESENTATION Hi , i’m Eraldo Guerra. I live in Recife, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. I am 37 years old and I’m Master in Software Engineering from CESAR. EDU. At the beginning of my Master degree, choosing my study and design object, got the first contact with the autistic universe. Why not have relatives, acquaintances or friends with Autism, I knew very little about it, but my interest was immediate from the beginning of my research on the subject. Me deeper into the subject, my interest Stepu to be increasing and joined my ideal path that I follow since then, culminating in Cangame Maker project. And how did it all happen? My intention was to research and develop a project that would provide a real benefit for the people who use it and not only an academic and scientific study object. So researching and dedicating myself to the subject, I oportunizado to know the story of Carly Fleischmann. This true story inspired me and even more motivated to think and conclude that the technology could be a facilitator. From that moment, every day that I leaned on the subject, I felt touched by the “pain”, dreams, difficulties experienced by these individuals and their families. That intensified my desire to accomplish this great and gorgeous design! I felt very happy with this choice, so that immediately took the proposal to my advisor. From then began the walk to this project! In 2011, I started my research, understanding the methods of treatment, behavioral issues from scientific articles based on national and international evidence and reaffirmed my certainty: the use of technology is an effective resource to facilitate formal and informal learning need to every Presentation | CanGame Maker 1.0 - Guidebook

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individual, being of importance for these individuals. In the certainty that it was developing a certain way, I got the support of various professionals from different areas of health and education and parents who with their professional experiences and experiences with these individuals added to this project evidence that contributed to the current situation of this project .  In 2012, the first project came about: the Cangame. The choice of this name came based on reading texts and articles, which conveyed the idea that autism was unable to live in society or autonomously. I did not agree with this idea is wanted to prove that it was wrong. I believed and still remain, that above all with availability, affection and dedication associated with resources and correct treatment strategies, could change that thought. So this was my first goal! The build and facilitate efficient and pleasurable feature, easy to understand and use, and above all, that could be used by all people of different social classes, bringing joy and enchantment. He needed to be pleasurable, fun and exercise your greatest learning function. So, uniting all this, as if by magic, the name appeared: Cangame that the act of playing you can change your life story! The first project was based on the use of Microsoft Kinect, which was a game with 4 characters that need your help to perform daily activities. Once the first version was ready, we were testing with several autistic from various regions of Brazil and different age groups. The tests showed wonderful and exciting results as seen in the previous video. What enabled several national and international scientific publications, awards and the support of many reputable people. But not everything is perfect and unfortunately at the moment we can not continue the project. But not my dream, it was stronger than the difficulties!!! I had a lot of strength and will, but I needed to make people believe that dream is wished to divide it and carry it with me. So I remained with enthusiasm in search of these people. Presentation | CanGame Maker 1.0 - Guidebook

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Some just give up because at that time there was still no financial return. I did not give up, if only because am still counting on the support of several mothers and professionals who believe in this project is personal dream. This affection and credibility that get drives me to keep fighting! Until my search has ended, I met a student, a friend who became part of me in Cangame dream. He believed, bet, dreamed and begin to see together what we were doing and what we would do. How our dream could help millions of people. And today I have to thank all the angels that appeared in my life, especially the angel Gabriel. Which in my case is Gabriel Lourenço, an angel who had entrusted a mission. I support, help and inspire together we continue doing our part for a better world! They have passed five years and currently providing a mobile version of Cangame called Cangame Maker. The main purpose of this release is to allow the construction of personalized the whole of each individual learning materials. You can use imaging features, audio, text and video that contribute to the treatment of each individual. Being personalized, Cangame Maker can be used for any stage of life of the autistic individual (child, youth and adult) and with different purposes (learning routine, communication, supported employment, inclusive education and others), without generating any kind of social embarrassment. I believe Cangame Maker besides being the realization of a dream and have over this time been supported acceptance and credibility, has all the requirements to become a trigger major changes !! With the sale of this application, I can finance new projects that are already under study Presentation | CanGame Maker 1.0 - Guidebook

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and adjustments and can be increasingly specific, beneficial and meet the different needs of other disorders such as ADHD, Learning and Syndromes DISORDERS that bring impairment of social, educational and global order. This dream would be complete with the desire to build a Social Technology Development Center, where we can develop software and applications to benefit society. Moreover, to promote the training of Autistic and any other condition that requires aid to be capacitaras for the labor market in areas games, animation, music and other. For insertion in the labor market and social life and practice with established partnerships and thus facilitate and monitor their development. Thus, in the near future, the same individual who Stepu the middle, becomes a multiplier of their knowledge, experience and an example of overcoming and inspiration to others. Why not dream and believe that can be done is to work? Having several centers like this in the world? And this new dream, we have four more wonderful people. That only added up to much believed in our dream. Where they seek to devote their time, knowledge, effort to do good to thousands of families, children around the world. For as we know the great value of a smile! Thank you for all the help and to be part of that dream! Asaffe Matias, Nicollas Freitas, José Fernando and Renato Araújo, our effort, our dedication will very worthwhile. For each day of choice that you made in choosing to continue in Cangame in worrying about the next.

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It was a smile of an autistic who awaken, who will benefit from our

Nicollas Freitas

Asaffe Matias

Renato Araújo

José Fernando

application! For all this to happen, I need that my dream is divided, shared and believed by all of you! Publicize this manual and application. Thus, more people will know it, buy it and to convey to all the fathers, mothers, educators and health professionals who want a better quality of life and above all, different opportunity in the development of these individuals contribution. Certainly, many smiles come!!! Professionals and families involved in this whole process of development of these individuals know the importance of a familiar smile, waiting anxiously for the first words or the importance of establishing an alternative communication that provides settings to set social social and behavioral skills. Many have suffered bullying or have been excluded at some point in his career. Presentation | CanGame Maker 1.0 - Guidebook

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Anyone can buy the application is to offer or give to an individual or family who enjoy this project (Cangame Maker). Just believe and want to help. In these five years I learned a lot. Revi concepts and today have autistic friends (who had not before) and partnerships with great people who shared with me their knowledge. They made me a better person! I learned to see the world in a different way and do not think I’m trying to change the way they see the world! On the contrary! I want to be an instrument to sensitize the world to see these individuals. This whole way of thinking, to understand the autistic universe, the world and the awareness I have to thank Doc. Andrea Michaela. That’s mentor, collaborator, friend, partner. Thank you for believing, listen and cooperate much with the whole project! That Cangame Maker can contribute too!

Doc. Andrea Michaela

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We gave the first Step. The second is with you! Let’s walk together? By downloading the app to take a picture with Cangame Maker on your phone and send it to us! We want to put on our thanks mural. Send to email: [email protected] Thank you,

_________________________ Eraldo Guerra (CEO & Founder)

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GUIDEBOOK The CanGame Maker is an application for Android phones (soon Windows Phone and iOS). It is an application for the treatment, learning, cognitive and social development through personalizaras learning routines! The proposal is that this customization allows creating specific content for the user, using photos, handouts, audio and video sequence that are more appropriate to use the cognitive and social knowledge. The same can be used by parents, educators and health professionals who follow the development of these individuals. By creating social learning routines of communication, supported employment, inclusive education, daily life and all your creativity and allow the individual need. All this without any kind of social embarrassment and records the progress of treatment. CanGame Maker is a personalized learning tool for Autistic, ADHD, Attention deficit disorders involving learning and etc. Let us understand its functioning below. In addition to this manual we are creating a video channel where anyone who uses the CanGame Maker will be able to post videos with examples of their activities performed. I believe that these actions will help all who use and have difficulties to create their activities.

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STEP 1 | FINDING THE APP Using your Android Smartphone, go to the Play Store (app store) and start the search for CanGame Maker. The application is first on the list, click it and wait to load the page the same (figure 1).

Figure 1 - First Step to be performed to acquire CanGame Maker.

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STEP 2 | INSTALATION When you open the CanGame Maker screen, you will find the option to buy. As I already have the application for those low for the first time you can change something. Now just click and follow the Store procedure. Once this is done is wait for it to start the download. This version it works in different languages because it was configured to recognize the native language of the smartphone (Figure 2).

Figure 2 – Buying the CanGame Maker.

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STEP 3 | USER PROFILE Now, after the download completed, we will learn to use. The CanGame Maker icon will be created on your desktop (smartphone). Click this icon and wait to get to the user profile screen. This profile is the person who will use the CanGame Maker as a learning tool or treatment and may be autistic, ADHD, Learning Difficulties, Attention Deficit and others. Place the photo to help in the identification, either a camera picture or use a photo of smartphone library. Such identification will help in the case of more than one CanGame Maker user in the same smartphone. There is concern that, in the case of application usage in a school, clinic, hospital, NGOs and even by self-employed professionals. Identification is important for routines created, monitoring of learning and other factors are specific, of each person. Preventing an accident results are mixed, and even treatment. If you need to change the user profile, just go in the menu and click on Exit. A new screen will open, allowing you to delete the existing profile or add a new profile. For free you can add up to three profiles per application.

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Create profile, click the camera icon and type a name

After that, click on em CREATE.

Confirm created profile.

Change profile

Add new profile

Delete existent profile

Figure 3 – Creating, changing and deleting one or more profiles.

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STEP 4 | CREATE PEC After the profile creation, let’s create a PEC (figure 4 e 5).

Select “play by PEC“.

You have 2 options: Create PEC (+) and Play PEC, If you already have some PEC (>). Choose Create PEC.

When you create a PEC, you need to define a name for the PEC, here suggested as “Apple”.

When you click on “text“, type the text that will appear for learning.

The result is the use of text feature.

If you want you can use the feature image and choose a gallery image or take a picture.

Figura 4 – Criando PEC’s de aprendizado. Guidebook | CanGame Maker 1.0 - Guidebook

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The result is the use of image feature.

It is also possible to make audio feature as a reinforcement. Just record the sound you want!

You can as well record a video, where for example eating apple or have another purpose.

After creating the PEC and choose the necessary resources (optional). Save and you’ll come to this screen.

If you need to create more PECs just click on the (+) and repeat the process.

Notice that the banana was only used text and image and set the display order.

Figure 5 – Creating PEC’s for learning.

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STEP 5 | PLAY PEC After creating the PEC, you can play and see your results, or you can already use directly the PEC on the learning with the autistic (Figure 6 and 7)

First sequence, image only. interaction exercise Questions and Answers (Ask for the child “knows what it is?”, “Would you like to eat?”)

If the autistic does not identify the image, the text of support will appear. If you need, you can pause the activity, return and confirm the task when you like.

Upon confirming the success is scored his performance, if not happy with the result you can repeat the activity or simply finish.

Figura 6 – Execução da PEC, comandos e finalização

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I case you don’t finish the task or not complete it, you will asked if it wishes to try again or terminate the activity.

If the delay between actions not good with the user’s needs, just click Settings.

You can customize the time between one action to another individually

Figure 7 – Failed PEC and settings

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STEP 6 | CREATE ROUTINE Notice that I created several PEC’s fruit, I can just create a learning routine then called fruit and place in the food category. What allows a larger organization to manage learning. The routine allows you to use various sequences of PEC’s and use them as best as possible. For example: I use some PEC’s fruit, cereals, dairy products and create a routine to “supermarket shopping” category “home”. Without changing the routine “good food” with fruits as PEC’s. Another good applicability is to create a routine action, “brush your teeth” and use photos, Step to Step videos that should be made to brush your teeth! You can create routines of “literacy” and create the category “communication” and show PEC’s letters and sounds of each letter. Can I use images of animals or objects that emit sound and use sound and text to perform vocal exercises. Can I use the process of inclusion, creating routines by PEC’s actions to be carried out in the workplace. At school and contribute to the autistic create your identity. You can create associative routines, with pictures of objects and text and videos explaining how to use or serving. A science teacher, for example can make a PEC of the senses of the human body. And for each place a body part of the image, a text with identification and a video for serving. As a nose and PEC have a video of the teacher smelling something. I create PEC’s only sequence of images and mathematical symbols and teach math operations. How can I use instead of numbers symbology something common to living autism. A sequence of balls, or hats, etc.

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Creating the routine “fruit” in the category “good food”

Selecting Pecs into routine “fruits” of the category “good food”

You can have multiple routines of various categories or even in the same category. You can set each routine execution order, like the order of execution of each Pec.

Figure 8 - Creating routines fruits of good food category.

Take pictures of objects or beings similar and explain difference, as small dog, large dog or dog with short, long or the dog domestic dog, guard dog. I can take pictures of the feelings of facial expressions and create feelings routines and explain how an angry person, happy, sarcasm ... The video helps a lot to interpret as something static just will not show the emotion that a video shows. The same was done by the person which the autistic identifies or has closer this factor will contribute a lot to learn, being an important attraction. The same goes for audio and photos! Use your imagination and love to promote learning and treatment! (Figure 9)

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Routine “Hygiene” Step by Step to brush teeth with video at the end.

Routine vowels with image and sound to contribute to the learning of speech.

Repeating sounds activity for speech exercises.

Ask “what kind Dog is this? “

Ask “what kind Dog is this? “

“How does this person feel?” Show video of a happy person!

Figure 9 - hygiene routines of domestic education category. literacy routine education category. Routine communication education category.

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Use CanGame Maker to meet the tastes of the autistic, who are the people involved in his life, how they treat and other possibilities through simple questions!

“What is the profession of this person?”

“Who live in this house?”

“What time is it?”

“Do you like it? Have you eaten today?”

“Who is he? Do you like him? He fight with you? He hits you?”

What is it? (Finish with video smelling something.)

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NOTE: The application was recently released, if the same display Bugs (failures), please do not forget to report them to improve more and more! We are together doing our best for a better world!

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