Giancarlo Taveira

Unity Developer (C#) with over 4 years of experience in Game Development. Have worked in several projects including educational games and simulators for both the National Institute of Technology (INT) and the Navy. Always looking for new challenges!

• Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA)

  • Sun Microsystems

• English

• Portuguese

• French

• Jecripe: stimulating cognitive abilities of children with down syndrome in pre-scholar age using a game approach

  • 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
  • November 19, 2010
  Authors: Giancarlo Taveira, André Brandão, Lenisa Brandão, Bruno da Costa Moreira, Pedro Thiago Mourão, Silvia Regina Brandão, Cristina Vasconcelos, Esteban Clua

  Digital games are usually developed to provide fun for people of all ages. Although games have been mostly used for entertainment purposes, they have great potential as an intervention tool in health care. Digital games can be applied in health care helping users to learn or to experience something in a fun way. However, there are important issues to be considered to achieve this goal, specially in the development of applications for people with special needs. In this work, we are concerned specifically with Down syndrome needs, and we present an unhackneyed game for children with Down syndrome between 3 to 7 years old. Children in pre-scholar age need to be stimulated considering different cognitive areas. The stimulation of such cognitive areas can provide good results in the development over the years. Given the current demand and absence of games that fulfill Down syndrome special needs, we developed JECRIPE. JECRIPE is a digital game that stimulates the specific cognitive abilities: imitation, perception, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and receptive and expressive verbal language. This paper describes how these cognitive areas are used to stimulate children with Down syndrome in pre-scholar age and some technical issues in the development of the game.

• Semiotic Inspection of a Game for Children with Down Syndrome

  • IX Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment
  • 2010
  Authors: Giancarlo Taveira, Bruno da Costa Moreira, André Brandão, Daniela Trevisan, Lenisa Brandão, Pedro Thiago Mourão, Cristina Vasconcelos, Esteban Clua

1. Programming
2. Game Development
3. Java
4. C#
5. Visual Studio
6. ActionScript
7. Unity3D
8. Matlab
9. Game Design
10. Scripting
11. Lua
12. Flash
13. Computer Science

Interests:

game design, game development, serious games.

Groups and Associations:

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  Adobe Flash Group
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  CUDA Developers
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  Ciência da Computação - UFF - ALUMNI
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  Game Developers
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  Game Developers Conference®
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  GameDev UFF
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  Independent Game Developers Group
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  International Game Developers Association
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  International Game Developers Association Members
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  Java Developers
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  Java Developers South America
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  Professionals in VideoGames
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  UDK Developers
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  UFF - Universidade Federal Fluminense ALUMNI
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  Unity