Learning by Playing. Game-based Education System Design and Development: 4th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2009, Banff, Canada, August 9-11, 2009. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Gamers against All Odds....Pages 1-12
Matchmaker: Interpersonal Touch in Gaming....Pages 13-24
Doing It Right: Combining Edutainment Format Development and Research....Pages 25-25
Virtual Apple Tree Pruning in Horticultural Education....Pages 26-37
An Architecture for Flexible Entity Configuration in a Simulation Environment....Pages 38-48
A Distributed Multi-agent Architecture in Simulation Based Medical Training....Pages 49-49
A Review on Augmented Reality for Virtual Heritage System....Pages 50-61
Mixing Telerobotics and Virtual Reality for Improving Immersion in Artwork Perception....Pages 62-73
Developing a Film-Based Learning System with English Verbal Reduced Forms for Supporting English Listening Comprehension....Pages 74-84
An Interactive 3D Exhibition System with Global Illumination for Digital Museum....Pages 85-92
Lishe System....Pages 93-100
E-Learning: The Strategies of Learning Culture and Arts....Pages 101-107
SoundTag: RFID Based Wearable Computer Play Tool for Children....Pages 108-108
Sketch Learning Environment with Diagnosis and Drawing Guidance from Rough Form to Detailed Contour Form....Pages 109-109
Construction of a Computer Game Oriented to Disaster Education and Reflections on Its Problems....Pages 110-119
CharanisML: A Flexible Virtual Actor Control Interface....Pages 120-132
Game Balance Principles in MMORPG with Pet System....Pages 133-140
An Approach to Evaluation Component Design in Building Serious Game....Pages 141-148
Do Improve Typing Skill But No Significant Difference between Drill-Based and Game-Based Typing Software....Pages 149-149
Little Big Difference: Gender Aspects and Gender-Based Adaptation in Educational Games....Pages 150-161
Game-Like Simulations for Online Adaptive Learning: A Case Study....Pages 162-173
Motivational Factors in Educational MMORPGs: Some Implications for Education....Pages 174-174
Designing a Trading Card Game as Educational Reward System to Improve Students’ Learning Motivations....Pages 175-175
Where Academics Meet the Real World: Difficulties Encountered When Conducting a Project for Designing a Game-Based Learning in a Company....Pages 176-183
An Entertainment System Using Thermal Feedback for Increasing Communication and Social Skills....Pages 184-195
Student Attitudes towards Using Culturally-Oriented Educational Games to Improve Programming Proficiency: An Exploratory Study....Pages 196-207
Towards Intelligent Computer Assisted Educational Role-Play....Pages 208-219
Reflective Learning through Playing Digital Game The Sims 2....Pages 220-227
A Story Authoring System for Children....Pages 228-238
Simplified Creation and Presentation of Non-linear Adaptive Content....Pages 239-250
Exploration of Affect Sensing from Speech and Metaphorical Text....Pages 251-262
QuizMASter - A Multi-Agent Game-Style Learning Activity....Pages 263-272
The Effects of Type of Interactivity in Experiential Game-Based Learning....Pages 273-282
Virtual Sport System for Optimum Exercising Based on a User Model....Pages 283-290
Engaging Kids with the Concept of Sustainability Using a Commercial Videogame-A Case Study....Pages 291-291
Entertaining Education – Using Games-Based and Service-Oriented Learning to Improve STEM Education....Pages 292-292
Learning English through Serious Games – Reflections on Teacher and Learner Performance....Pages 293-293
ELEIN: E-Learning with 3D Interactive Emotional Agents....Pages 294-305
Tangible Drag-and-Drop: Transferring Digital Content with a Remote Control....Pages 306-315
Adaptation in Collaborative Virtual Environments for Training....Pages 316-327
Pushdown Automata Simulator....Pages 328-338
Construction Knowledge Transfer through Interactive Visualization....Pages 339-350
Pathfinding Strategy for Multiple Non-Playing Characters in 2.5 D Game Worlds....Pages 351-362
Research on Using Cult3D and Java to Realize Virtual Assembly....Pages 363-370
Design and Implementation of Operation Replay for Virtual Experiment....Pages 371-378
Adaptive Lip Feature Point Detection Algorithm for Real-Time Computer Vision-Based Smile Training System....Pages 379-389
Fast Shape-Simplifying Image Abstraction Using Graphics Hardware....Pages 390-398
Music-Making and Musical Comprehension with Robotic Building Blocks....Pages 399-409
AdMoVeo: A Robotic Platform for Teaching Creative Programming to Designers....Pages 410-421
Edutainment Robotics as Learning Tool....Pages 422-422
Designing a DSL Solution for the Domain of Augmented Reality Software Applications Specification....Pages 423-434
A Study of Virtual Product Presentation with Whiteboard and Its Effect on Users Perception....Pages 435-443
Survey on Collaborative AR for Multi-user in Urban Studies and Planning....Pages 444-455
The Learning Effectiveness of Blended and Embodied Interactive Video Game on Kindergarten Students....Pages 456-463
From Fingers to Embodiment: A Study on the Relations of the Usability, Dependability of the Embodied Interactive Video Games and the Elders’ Flow Experience....Pages 464-472
Kindergartners’ Color Preference and Temperament in Embodied Interactive Video Game....Pages 473-478
Researches on Using Robots in Education....Pages 479-482
A Task-Based Role-Playing Game with Educational Robots for Learning Language....Pages 483-488
Design of an Interactive Table for Mixed-Reality Learning Environments....Pages 489-494
A Study of Collaboration and Conflicts Using Multi-robots....Pages 495-500
A Case Analysis of Creative Spiral Instruction Model and Students’ Creative Problem Solving Performance in a LEGO ® Robotics Course....Pages 501-505
Gender Heterogeneous Groups in Cooperative Learning Applied in "Robots in Creative Course": A Pilot Study....Pages 506-511
Exploring Children’s Perceptions of the Robots....Pages 512-517
Development of an Emotional Robot as a Teaching Assistant....Pages 518-523
Empirical Research and Design of M-Learning System for College English....Pages 524-535
Designing an e-Learning Reactivate Promotion for Unpopular Collections in Academic Library....Pages 536-543
Multi-media e-Learning Platform Using Green Design with Near-Real Approach....Pages 544-550
Interactive Whiteboard Teaching in English Education Based on Dual Code Theory and Bloom Teaching Quality....Pages 551-558
A Cognitive-Interactive Approach to Chinese Characters Learning: System Design and Development....Pages 559-564
An Automatic Course Generation System for Organizing Existent Learning Objects Using Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 565-570
The Experience of Adopting Game-Based Learning in Library Instruction....Pages 571-576
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