Electronic Leisure Challenges: Video Games
A session titled Retos del Ocio Electrónico. Videojuegos — examining the role of video games in the lives of people with disabilities, within the UNIFOR programme on leisure and free time.
Programme areas
What the session covered
The event sat alongside the site's standing themes of electronic leisure, accessibility and disability integration. Sections published for the session included a programme, registration, a forum and suggestions.
Programme
An outline of the session's contributions on video games as a form of electronic leisure.
Registration
A dedicated inscriptions area for people wishing to attend the Salamanca session.
Forum & Suggestions
Open spaces to comment on the topics raised and to propose further subjects.
Accessibility
The site stated an intention to be accessible to all, using W3C standard formats and WAI guidelines.
Venue
Where it was held
The session took place at the Centro de Recuperación para Personas con Discapacidad Física — the recovery centre for people with physical disabilities — on the Villamayor avenue in Salamanca.
| Venue | Centro de Recuperación para Personas con Discapacidad Física |
|---|---|
| Address | Avda. Villamayor, 79-85 37007 Salamanca |
| Telephone | 923 234850 ext. 231 |
| jornada@imsersounifor.org |
Organising bodies
Unidad de Nuevas Tecnologías
Instituto de Mayores y Servicios Sociales (IMSERSO)
Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social
The session materials listed these bodies in the page footer alongside the copyright line covering 2000–2009.
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The session formed part of a wider set of UNIFOR resources on disability, professional training and teleformation, plus a general contact route for enquiries and suggestions.