DIHB008 Анимацията като инструмент за социализация (Animation as a Socializing Tool)

Анотация:

The course explores the opportunities of animation as a socializing and therapeutic tool, especially for ASD kids, focusing on three aspects:

- professional animated products employed to make abstract knowledge visually accessible

- creating and using animation on an everyday user level as a powerful socializing and therapeutic tool

- employing animation as a tool to find social and health solutions through 3D simulations (virtual teacher, 3D game strategies etc.).

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Преподавател(и):

доц. Полина Михова  д-р
 Людмил Дуриданов  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

COMPETENCES

1. Upon graduation students will have acquired the following knowledge:

- they will be introduced to animation as art and communication tool

- they will acquire basic elements, stages and terminology of animation production in the digital age

- they will learn how to trigger the attention of kids from the autistic spectrum and/or socialize hyperactive kids using animation

2. Upon graduation students will have developed the following skills:

- they will be able to employ and/or manage the creation of small animations within the large scope of professional activities

- they can trigger the attention of ASD kids with the PECS system, using animation
Предварителни изисквания:
PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS

Students should bring along:

- working English

- motivation to learn more about animation as a tool;

- interest in use of applied animation in their future professional activities.



Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

  1. Animation - Differences from Live Action Cinema
  2. Promenade through the history of animation as art
  3. Main features that make animation a powerful tool of communication and therapy
  4. Animation as an Advertising Tool – Contagious Ideas
  5. Animation - a Successfully Employed Participatory Learning Tool
  6. Autism and Dysphasia – Two Aspects or Different Phenomena?
  7. Art Animation as an „ASD language“ to Connect
  8. Autism – Clinical Enigma or Mal du siecle (the clinical picture)
  9. Autism - Thinking in Pictures and Patterns (The Case of Temple Grandin)
  10. Disclosing Autistic Phenomena of Child Behavior - the Parents' Case
  11. Autistic Treatment - Successful Approaches
  12. PECS as a Therapy Approach - the Virtual Teacher
  13. Computer-Assisted Game Therapy for ASD Children
  14. Motivational Criteria for an Interactive Game for ASD Kids
  15. Designing a Game for ASD Kids „Discover the basic emotions“ (as a pilot project)

Литература по темите:

RECOMMENDED REFERENCES

• Bernard-Opitz, V.: Enhancing Social Problem Solving in Children with Autism and Normal Children Through Computer-Assisted Instruction, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2001.

• Brentani, Helena et al.: Autism spectrum disorders: an overview on diagnosis and treatment, Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria. 2013, No.35, p.62–72.

• Herring, P. J.: Design and evaluation of a CAL system to support communication development in children with autism. PhD thesis, The Open University 2015.

• Herring, P.J. et al.: A virtual tutor for children with autism. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 2016.

• Noake, Roger: Animation: A Guide to Animated Techniques. MacDonald Orbis 1988.

• Laybourne, Kit: The Animation Book, Crown Publishers, Inc. New York 1978.

• Stokes, Stroke: Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective, Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, vol. 1, no. 1

• Mason, Helen Rachel: Dare to Dream.The Use of Animation in Occupational Therapy, in: Mental health occupational therapy, Volume 14, issue 3, November 2009.

• Siegel, Bryna: The world of the autistic child, Oxford University Press 1996. Richard Williams

• Williams, Richard: The Animator's Survival Kit, 2006.