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NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR ART THERAPY INTERVENTIONS TAILORED TO SEVERE DISABILITIES
Simone Donnari
; Atlas Centre, Perugia, Italy ;Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Valentina Canonico
; Atlas Centre, Perugia, Italy ;Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Giovanni Fatuzzo
; Atlas Centre, Perugia, Italy ;Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Chiara Bedetti
; Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Moreno Marchiafava
; Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Marina Menna
; Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy
Sandro Elisei
; Istituto Serafico, Assisi, Perugia, Italy ;Department of Philosophy, Social and Human Sciences and Education, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Sažetak
Individuals with multiple disabilities can have a wide range of characteristics depending on the combination and severity of the
disabilities, such as intellectual disability, mobility issues, sensorial impairment, language issues and brain injury. New technologies
can help therapists find an alternative way to engage and interact with clients by opening a communication window and starting to
build the therapeutic relationship.
The need to use more customized technological tools led us to develop the Painteraction system, an intuitive tool based on
Augmented Reality that allows clients to be immersed in their own images. Just by moving their bodies individuals are able to make
drawings and receive visual feedback, both from themselves and their therapists, as it appears on the screen.
The pilot testing of Painteraction was performed on 21 inpatients at Istituto Serafico (Assisi, Italy) with severe/multiple
disabilities in order to explore and assess reaction and responsiveness in a semi-structured art therapy setting. The sample was
formed by 14 males and 7 females (N=21) between the ages of 7 and 35. All participants attended three twenty-minute individual art
therapy sessions which were approximately one week apart.
Through direct and indirect (video recordings) observation of the sessions, it appeared that the specific Augmented Reality tool
introduced in the art therapy setting was easily accepted by most of the clients involved and generally allowed the development of an
interpersonal therapist-client relationship.
The present study therefore gave us the opportunity to test new digital tools in the challenging setting of severe/multiple
disabilities and observe the huge potential of new media to empower clients to express themselves and their creativity, and ultimately
overcome mental and physical barriers.
We propose that Augmented Reality tools are particularly well-suited to art therapy and create an equally suitable therapeutic
environment to address specific client needs.
Ključne riječi
severe disability; multiple disability; art therapy; augmented reality; Painteraction
Hrčak ID:
264137
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Datum izdavanja:
4.9.2019.
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