Transactions on Edutainment I

✍ Scribed by Vít à isler, Cyril Brom (auth.), Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Abdennour El Rhalibi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5080
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of Edutainment, such as Game-based Learning and Serious Games, Interactive Storytelling, Virtual Learning Environments, VR-based Education, and related fields. It will cover aspects from Educational and Game Theories, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, and Systems Design.

The first volume of this series contains a selection of outstanding contributions from Edutainment 2008, the 3rd International Conference on E-Learning and Games which took place in Nanjing, China, in June 2008. These papers are complemented by individual contributions from international experts in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Designing an Educational Game: Case Study of ’Europe 2045’....Pages 1-16
Timed Automata-Based Rehabilitation Training Game Design for the Affected Lower Extremity of Hemiparetic Patient....Pages 17-27
A Haptic Virtual Environment for Molecular Chemistry Education....Pages 28-39
ARGarden: Augmented Edutainment System with a Learning Companion....Pages 40-50
Developing a Digital Game-Based Situated Learning System for Ocean Ecology....Pages 51-61
A Pen-Based 3D Role Modeling Tool for Children....Pages 62-73
A Reusable Eduventure Game Framework....Pages 74-85
Construction and Evaluation of a Robot Dance System....Pages 86-95
TMAR: Extension of a Tabletop Interface Using Mobile Augmented Reality....Pages 96-106
Interacting with Augmented Assets in Cultural Tourism....Pages 107-117
Interactive Storytelling: Approaches and Techniques to Achieve Dynamic Stories....Pages 118-134
Behavioural Reactive Agents to Define Personality Traits in the Videogame Überpong....Pages 135-149
’Killer Phrases’: Design Steps for a Game with Digital Role-Playing Agents....Pages 150-161
From Pencil to Magic Wand: Tangibles as Gateways to Virtual Stories....Pages 162-171
Game-Based Learning with Computers – Learning, Simulations, and Games....Pages 172-190
Core Attributes of Interactive Computer Games and Adaptive Use for Edutainment....Pages 191-205
Interactive Media Authoring Systems....Pages 206-230
A Review of Using Virtual Reality for Learning....Pages 231-241
The Mental Vision Framework - A Platform for Teaching, Practicing and Researching with Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality....Pages 242-260
Making the Real World as a Game World to Learners by Applying Game-Based Learning Scenes into Ubiquitous Learning Environment....Pages 261-277
VR Bio X Games....Pages 278-287
Online Learning and Clinical Procedures: Rapid Development and Effective Deployment of Game-Like Interactive Simulations....Pages 288-304
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Computer Graphics; Computers and Education