عنوان

Transactions on Edutainment IX

(Number (ISBN

3642370411

(Number (ISBN

364237042X

(Number (ISBN

9783642370410

(Number (ISBN

9783642370427

Number

b567849

Title Proper

Transactions on Edutainment IX

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Zhigeng Pan [aut]; Adrian David Cheok [aut]; Wolfgang Müller [aut]; Fotis Liarokapis [aut]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Heidelberg Springer

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(289 p.) : illustrations

Series Title

Lecture notes in computer science, 7544.; Transactions on edutainment, IX.

Text of Note

The Periodic Table of Elements via an XNA-Powered Serious Game.- Digital Storytelling within Virtual Environments: "The Battle of Thermopylae".- Games on Prescription! Evaluation of the Elinor Console for Home-Based Stroke Rehabilitation.- An Analysis of the Potential to Utilize Virtual Worlds to Enhance Edutainment and Improve the Wellbeing of the Ageing Population.- Course Lectures as Problem-Based Learning Interventions in Virtual Worlds.- Virtual Customers in a Multiagent Training Application.- Game Based Early Programming Education: The More You Play, the More You Learn.- Story Guided Virtual Environments in Educational Applications.- Rendering Technology of 3D Digital Chinese Ink-Wash Landscape Paintings Based on Maya.- Effects of RPG on Middle School Players' Intrapersonal Intelligence.- Implementation of Lushan Virtual Digital Plant Museum.- Pedestrian Detection Based on Kernel Discriminative Sparse Representation.- The Design and Implementation of Computer-Aided Chinese Medicated Diet System.- Music-Driven Emotion Model Applied in Digitalized Dance Performance of Sacrificial Ceremony for Confucius.- Real-Time Rendering Framework in the Virtual Home Design System.- Multiple-Cue-Based Visual Object Contour Tracking with Incremental Learning.- Building Virtual Entertainment Environment with Tiled Display Wall and Motion Tracking.- A Calibration Method for Removing the Effect of Infrared Camera Self-radiance on the Accuracy of Temperature Measurement.- Enjoying of Traditional Chinese Shadow Play - A Cross-Culture Study.- A Patch-Based Data Reorganization Method for Coupling Large-Scale Simulations and Parallel Visualization.- The Boom and Bust and Boom of Educational Games.

Text of Note

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 covers aspects from educational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and systems design. This issue contains a special section on serious games with 8 outstanding contributions from the VS-Games 2011 conference; furthermore, there are 13 regular papers. These contributions clearly demonstrate the use of serious games and virtual worlds for edutainment applications and form a basis for further exploration and new ideas.

Active learning -- Congresses.

Computer-assisted instruction -- Congresses.

Educational games -- Congresses.

Zhigeng Pan [aut]; Adrian David Cheok [aut]; Wolfgang Müller [aut]; Fotis Liarokapis [aut]

Adrian David Cheok

Fotis Liarokapis

Wolfgang Müller

Zhigeng Pan

Electronic name

[Book]

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