Location-Based Interaction with Children for Edutainment

Rehm, Matthias; André, Elisabeth; Conradi, Bettina; Hammer, Stephan; Iversen, Malte; Lösch, Eva; Pajonk, Torsten; Stamm, Katharina

doi:10.1007/11768029_22

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“…There has been a growing demand to enhance the edutainment environment for children that supports education and entertainment in a seamless manner, given the context of children learning initiatives [1], [2], [3] and [4]. The use of multimedia has been the key contributing factor in this scope due to the enormous potential it brings in leisure and education [5].…”

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A multimedia-driven ambient edutainment system for the young children

Karime

Hossain

Saddik

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context

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Recently, there has been a tremendous demand for developing tools to support education and entertainment in a seamless manner. Many existing works in this domain have focused on developing systems that either require too much interaction or are not suitable for young children who are at their very early stage of learning. It is also very challenging to develop an edutainment environment that does not require special technical skills, yet provides useful functionalities. In this paper, we address this issue and present the design and development of an ambient edutainment system for the very young children. Based on communication and multimedia technologies, "it" provides educative and entertaining capabilities for children between the age of 1 and 4. One of the important features it presents is the transformation of narrative activities into visual representations. Children, supervised or unsupervised, can have both the capability of improving their cognitive skills and learning about new objects and entities through the use of visual presentations provided by the proposed system.

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confidence: 99%

A multimedia-driven ambient edutainment system for the young children

Karime

Hossain

Saddik

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context

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“…[21], an autonomous bot in Second Life [27], the Gamble multiuser dice game [25], interacting with virtual dancers [30]. Bottom row: collaborating agents in edutainment [28], a virtual tourist guide, the FearNot! anti-bullying system [10].…”

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Some Pitfalls for Developing Enculturated Conversational Agents

Rehm

André

Nakano

2009

Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient, Ubiquitous and Intelligent Interaction

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Abstract.A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behaviors that underlie face-to-face encounters, it is indispensable to incorporate cultural heuristics of such behaviors into the system. In this paper we examine some of the pitfalls that arise in developing such systems.

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