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consider nonverbal signs as an important part of our cultural model,

and as complementary to more traditional “signs.”

6.3 e Cultural Model in the Development Process

of a Pedagogical Game

In this section, we describe how we applied the cultural model to the

Nasa culture, present the methodology we used for development and

testing of a school game, and discuss preliminary results of the valida-

tion. Çut pwese’je, “the maize game,” is a word guessing game, which is

similar to the popular hangman, but is designed to be used by people

from the Nasa community with the aim of helping children to learn

the Nasa Yuwe alphabet (Checa Hurtado and Ruano Rincón, 2006).

is game was developed through an iterative process ...