- Self City - An aid for socially impaired children in order to enrich their behavioural repertoire Dialogical Self (psychology) 24/7 Coaching of Autists (good practice) Externalism (philosophy & neurology) Position Poverty Thesis: Socially emotionally impaired children develop an internal self with only a few dialogical positions Consequence: These children posess a poor behavioural repertoire. They exhibit inadequate, inflexible, clumsy social behaviour. People with a autistic spectrum disorder are appointed a coach who they can call with their mobile phone 24 hours a day. These coaches give their clients all sorts of advice in complex social situations at school, work or in their private life. The coach moves into the extern of the person being al self coached Computer Game (serious gaming) In a computer game the situation between coach and client is duplicated. The player is confronted with social situations. The player’s behaviour is monitored and the coach (represented by a creature which appeals to the player) gives supplementary advice. During the computer game play the player receives advice from the virtual coach on his or her mobile phone. The phone is used in the transfer phase in which the player learns to exhibit his enriched behavioural repertoire in real life. The scenarios for Self City are developed in close cooperation with children of the target group Leo Sluiter [email protected] Ronald Hünneman [email protected] Some of the assumptions and principles of the game were tested in an experiment in 2nd Life. Though the test was not far reaching enough to yield outright confirmation, the results were very promising.