This volume focuses on games to manage and facilitate rehabilitation. It emphasizes user practice, attitudes, and experience, and their changing place within developing rehabilitation frameworks. It looks at how users have adopted, integrated, and innovated with games to facilitate rehabilitation. Topics include game technology, game design and accessibility, web-based technologies vs pervasive and mobile technologies, social and collaborative aspects, and rehabilitative outcome. Games for...

Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices offers a comprehensive overview of design-based, technology-enhanced approaches to teaching and learning in virtual settings. Today’s digital communications foster new opportunities for sharing culture and knowledge while also prompting concerns over division, disinformation and surveillance. This book uniquely emphasises playful, collaborative experiences and democratic values in a variety of environments—adaptive, augmented, dialogic,...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings the 6th EAI International Conference on Design, Leaning and Innovation, DLI 2021, which took place in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The theme for DLI 2021 was “Shifting boundaries to discover novel ways and emerging technologies to realise human needs, ideas, and desires” targeting a conceptualisation of the effects and impact of digital technologies for, in an inclusive and p...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation, DLI 2024, held virtually, during November 7–8, 2024.The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Using Immersive Technologies for Learning, Accessibility, and Technological Innovation; and Engaging Learners through Gamification, Playful Design, and Generat...

Only if she dares... and she does.The sound of a whip licking the floor should cause her to tremble. The whistle hiss of it cutting the air should tell her to run. The pin-prick kiss of leather should make her wince. These would be normal reactions, but Samantha Hunter couldn’t go back to being normal if she tried.Oleg, her Master, is a king among kings in the BDSM world. He’s broken his promise to join two Mafia dynasties in an arranged marriage. Now a woman is dead and he...

An engaging narrated refresh of the Star Wars 5-Minute Stories, featuring a story that retells a scene from The Force Awakens: When scavenger Rey hears a strange beeping sound and rescues a trapped droid from a sand dweller, she ends up being chased by stormtroopers! Listen along as Rey and droid, BB-8, with the help of a new friend, Finn, race to escape the stormtroopers' TIE fighters, with SFX and music throughout.

From the author of Penelope in Retrograde comes the sparkling story of three generations of women, each trying to live out their own dreams without breaking a leg in the process.Liza Day’s mother isn’t dead, but leave it to Darla Day to throw herself a funeral anyway. It’s the kind of attention grab Liza left behind to build a quiet life for herself and her rebellious teenage daughter, Avery. But between her students discovering her old daytime TV...

George and Harry are two loafers. They see an open door in a farmhouse and one goes in and the other to the cowshed. They both have different experiences but at the end they are back on the road again.

Nicky, the youngest, is with his family on his way to Father Christmas Land. He got lost and with help finds his way there. Mother is overjoyed to see her youngest again and all the family and friends

The story follows Francisco, a young boy living in Argentina, as he navigates his everyday life. Through Francisco's experiences, readers are introduced to the customs, traditions, and landscapes of Argentina. The book portrays various aspects of Argentine culture, including its history, geography, and social practices.Francisco's adventures and interactions with his family and friends provide a window into the typical life of a child in Argentina during the early 20th century. The narrati...

If you take a steamer in New York whose destination is the eastern coast of South America, and remain on it a little over four weeks, you will reach the great metropolis of our twin continent, Buenos Aires. In all probability they will be weeks of infinite content and delight, for the southern half of the Atlantic Ocean is milder in her moods than the northern half, and there will be a sufficient number of stops en route to relieve the journey of monotony. First comes the Barbadoes, then P...

This book constitutes the proceedings of two conferences: The 5th International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2016) and the First International Conference on Design, Learning and Innovation (DLI 2016). ArtsIT is reflecting trends in the expanding field of digital art, interactive art, and how game creation is considered an art form. The decision was made to augment the title of ArtsIT to be in future known as “The International Conference on Interactivity, G...