Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment: First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Abstracts....Pages 1-3
VR-Enabled Bio Edutainment....Pages 4-4
Learning Abstract Concepts Through Interactive Playing....Pages 5-5
Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality for Virtual Learning Environments....Pages 6-6
Intelligent Tutorial Planning Based on Extended Knowledge Structure Graph....Pages 7-16
Perceptual Evaluation of Pronunciation Quality for Computer Assisted Language Learning....Pages 17-26
Designing Social Navigation for a Virtual Community of Practice....Pages 27-38
Applying the Adaptive Learning Material Producing Strategy to Group Learning....Pages 39-49
Comparison of Two Learning Models for Collaborative e-Learning....Pages 50-59
On Demand E-Learning with Service Grid Technologies....Pages 60-69
Architecture of an Authoring System to Support Interactive Contents Creation for Games/E-Learning....Pages 70-79
Trans-disciplinary Avenues in Education: Computing and Art....Pages 80-89
Enhanced SCORM Sequencing Rule for e-Learning System....Pages 90-99
Research on Intelligent Mutual Decision-Making in Virtual Learning Environments....Pages 100-107
Monitoring the Experiment Process and Diagnosing the Experiment Mistakes Made by Students with Petri Net Modeling....Pages 108-115
The Research on a Kind of Knowledge Network for Self-learning....Pages 116-123
Research on Personalized Knowledge Service System in Community E-Learning....Pages 124-131
Using Instruction Strategy for a Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System....Pages 132-139
E-Learning Resource Management Knowledge....Pages 140-146
Visual Tools and Examples to Support Active E-Learning and Motivation with Performance Evaluation....Pages 147-155
Research and Application of Stereoscopic Video Based e-Learning System....Pages 156-160
Fusion Education by Humanities and Sciences in the Case of e-Learning and Hands-On....Pages 161-165
Knowledge Representing and Clustering in e-Learning....Pages 166-170
Programming of Informatized Instructional Design Platform for Physics....Pages 171-177
A New Method for Testing Embedded Software with Scenario Pattern....Pages 178-182
The Construction of Fuzzy Set and Fuzzy Rule for Mixed Approach in Adaptive Hypermedia Learning System....Pages 183-187
Knowledge Management System Based on Semantic Web in e-Learning Community....Pages 188-192
A Platform for Interactive VR Storytelling....Pages 193-202
Reviewing the Potential of Virtual Learning Environments in Schools....Pages 203-212
Designing a Virtual Learning Environment to Support the Study of Crime and Its Prevention for Teenagers....Pages 213-222
Mental Vision: A Computer Graphics Teaching Platform....Pages 223-232
3-D Graphical Hypermedia Meets Interactive E-Books: A New Paradigm for Experiential Learning....Pages 233-242
e-Calculus at IZTECH....Pages 243-250
SKIT: A Computer-Assisted Sketch Instruction Tool....Pages 251-260
Exploring the Fourth Dimension: The Design of a Multimedia Learning System for Generalization....Pages 261-270
Curriculum Development for the Gifted Elementary School Students in Computer....Pages 271-280
Computer-Assisted Teaching in Class Situation: A High-School Math Lab on Vectors....Pages 281-290
Interactive Multimedia System for Distance Learning of Higher Education....Pages 291-300
A Multimedia Contents Development and Implementation Model Based on Computer Graphics Courseware....Pages 301-310
Study on the Long-Range Marine Cruise System of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles....Pages 311-315
An Extendable System for the Specification and Generation of Interactive Self-tests....Pages 316-321
A Wireless LAN-Based Robust and Scalable Virtual Laboratory for E-Learning....Pages 322-325
Component Based E-Learning System Using Item Analysis....Pages 326-329
Collaborative GIS Environment for Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Based on Hybrid P2P Network....Pages 330-333
Storytelling in Virtual Reality for Training....Pages 334-347
Supporting the Development of Interactive Storytelling Skills in Teenagers....Pages 348-357
700 Years Later: Using Multimedia to Bring the Stories of Medieval Asian Scrolls to Today’s Students....Pages 358-367
Developments in Affect Detection from Text in Open-Ended Improvisational E-Drama....Pages 368-379
Theoretical Framework for Construction of Representation Through Interactive Narrative....Pages 380-388
Edutainment Aspects in Hypermedia Storytelling....Pages 389-398
A Theatre of Ethics and Interaction? Bertolt Brecht and Learning to Behave in First-Person Shooter Environments....Pages 399-408
Using Cognitive Affective Interaction Model to Construct On-Line Game for Creativity....Pages 409-418
Story Pacing in Interactive Storytelling....Pages 419-428
Narrative Structure Analysis of Lecture Video with Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model for E-Learning....Pages 429-437
4-Dimensional Context Management for Interactive Virtual Storytelling....Pages 438-443
PS-DA Model of Game Addiction: Theoretical Hypothesis and Case Analysis....Pages 444-452
A Case Study of Game Design for E-Learning....Pages 453-462
Static and Dynamic Difficulty Level Design for Edutainment Game Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 463-472
Study of Dance Entertainment Using Robots....Pages 473-483
Smart Ambience Games for Children with Learning Difficulties....Pages 484-493
Teaching an Undergraduate AI Course with Games and Simulation....Pages 494-506
Experimental Approach to Affective Interaction in Games....Pages 507-518
A Framework to Help Designing Innovative Massively Multiplayer Online Games Interactions....Pages 519-528
Earth and Planetary System Science Game Engine....Pages 529-540
Learning Online: A Comparative Study of a Situated Game-Based Approach and a Traditional Web-Based Approach....Pages 541-551
Design and Contents of a 3Dblog System and Its Applications to Edutainment....Pages 552-565
Design and Implementation of Farmtasia: A Game Designed for the VISOLE Teaching Style....Pages 566-571
Teaching Agent Systems’ Design Using 3D Interactive Computer Games....Pages 572-576
 Cyranus – An Authoring Tool for Interactive Edutainment Applications....Pages 577-580
Research of Virtual Campus Environment Study Using VRML....Pages 581-584
A Multimodal Fusion Framework for Children’s Storytelling Systems....Pages 585-588
Design of a Cartoon Game for Traffic Safety Education of Children in China....Pages 589-592
Cinematographic Techniques for Edutainment Applications....Pages 593-596
Efficient Large-Scale Terrain Rendering Method for Real-World Game Simulation....Pages 597-605
Federate Migration in Grid-Based Virtual Wargame Collaborative Environment....Pages 606-615
Cyclic Reproduction Scheme in Genetic Algorithm for Evolutionary Game....Pages 616-626
Model Searching Algorithm Based on Response Order and Access Order in War-Game Simulation Grid....Pages 627-637
Creating Emotions by Characters Design for Computer Games....Pages 638-647
Efficiently Maintaining Consistency Using Tree-Based P2P Network System in Distributed Network Games....Pages 648-657
Real-Time Neuroevolution to Imitate a Game Player....Pages 658-668
Improving Game Processing in Multithreading and Multiprocessor Architecture....Pages 669-679
ODECAL, a Flexible Open Source Rag Doll Simulation Engine....Pages 680-687
Computer Supported Remote Learning and Gaming Using Tele-Face Mouse System....Pages 688-691
Pheromone-Based Pre-processing to Improve Move Generation in Board Games....Pages 692-695
Design and Implementation of a Game Physics Editor Using XML....Pages 696-699
A Virtual Billiard Game with Visual, Auditory and Haptic Sensation....Pages 700-705
Chinese Chess Based on Jabber....Pages 706-710
Dynamic Terrain LOD with Region Preservation in 3D Game Engine....Pages 711-715
Design and Implementation of a Mobile Class Web Site Using Intelligent User Interface....Pages 716-725
A Wearable Learning and Support System for Manufacture Application....Pages 726-734
Analysis and Research About an On-Line Collaborative Learning Teams Based Grids....Pages 735-744
Of Collaborative Learning Team: An Approach for Emergent Leadership Roles Identification by Using Social Network Analysis....Pages 745-754
Concepts for Extending Wiki Systems to Supplement Collaborative Learning....Pages 755-767
3D Collaborative Virtual Environments over the Web....Pages 768-777
Research on Multimedia Transmission of Mobile Learning Based on Wireless Network....Pages 778-784
Interactive Mobile Pet Game....Pages 785-790
Multi-stroke Freehand Text Entry Method Using OpenVG and Its Application on Mobile Devices....Pages 791-796
A Streaming Engine for PC-Based 3D Network Games onto Heterogeneous Mobile Platforms....Pages 797-800
Hybrid Triangle-Based Sub-texel Precision Anisotropic Filtering for Mobile Devices....Pages 801-804
A Combination Scheme to Improve TCP Throughput over Multihops Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 805-809
Web Virtual Reality Edutainment in Biology and Physics....Pages 810-817
Survey and Practice of 3D City Modeling....Pages 818-828
Collaborative 3D Modeling of Large-Scale Virtual Geographic Environment....Pages 829-839
A 3D Model Feature-Line Extraction Method Using Mesh Sharpening....Pages 840-848
3D Body Reconstruction from Photos Based on Range Scan....Pages 849-860
Mesh Fitting Based 3D Character Modeling....Pages 861-872
Antialiased Shadow Algorithms for Game Rendering....Pages 873-882
Efficient Out-of-Core Rendering of Complex 3D Scenes....Pages 883-892
An Efficient Method for Rendering Detailed Soft Shadow....Pages 893-902
Research of Dynamic Terrain in Complex Battlefield Environments....Pages 903-912
Procedural Terrain Detail Based on Patch-LOD Algorithm....Pages 913-920
Texture Synthesis Using Incremental Patches....Pages 921-927
Image Based Active Model Adaptation Method for Face Reconstruction and Sketch Generation....Pages 928-933
Space Object Geometry and Behavior Modeling Method....Pages 934-942
Interactive Sketch Generation for Dunhuang Frescoes....Pages 943-946
Real-Time Walkthrough System of Large-Scale Infrared Dynamic Scene....Pages 947-950
Dynamic Surface Deformation and Modeling Using Rubber Sweepers....Pages 951-961
A Novel Algorithm for Extracting the Boundaries of Two Planar Curves’ Morphologic Summation....Pages 962-969
An Efficient Algorithm for Content-Based Human Motion Retrieval....Pages 970-979
A Fast Individual Face Modeling and Facial Animation System....Pages 980-988
Digital Buddhist Image Creation by Haptic Deformation....Pages 989-998
Expression Animation of Interactive Virtual Humans Based on HMM Emotion Model....Pages 999-1007
Retrieval of 3D Video Mosaics for Fast 3D Visualization....Pages 1008-1017
Style Animations Generated from Dynamic Model....Pages 1018-1026
Research and Implement of Virtual Human’s Walking Model in Maintenance Simulation....Pages 1027-1036
An Integrated Color Changing Simulation System Based on Colorimetric and Chemical Modeling....Pages 1037-1046
An Experimental Facial Synthesis System Using Graph Cut and Gradient Domain Fusion....Pages 1047-1052
Skin Incision Using Real-Time Cutaway Based on FE Analysis....Pages 1053-1057
Physically-Based Real-Time Music Fountain Simulation....Pages 1058-1061
Generating 3D Paper-Cutting Effects....Pages 1062-1065
Interactive Simulation of Large-Scale Forests in Virtual Reality Applications....Pages 1066-1069
Dynamic Textures Using Wavelet Analysis....Pages 1070-1073
Style Conversion of Cartoon Animation....Pages 1074-1079
Application of 4-Point Subdivision to Generate In-Between Frames in Skeletal Animation....Pages 1080-1084
Recursive Curves and Surfaces in Grassmann Space for Computer Modeling and Animation....Pages 1085-1089
Virtual Five Animals Exercise....Pages 1090-1093
Adaptive Level Set Method for Mesh Evolution....Pages 1094-1097
Energy Matting....Pages 1098-1102
Computer Simulation of Multi-phase Coupled Heat and Moisture Transfer in Clothing Assembly with a Phase Change Material in a Cold Environment....Pages 1103-1106
A Distributed Forest Fire Fighting Simulation System Based on HLA....Pages 1107-1111
Experimental Researches on Gaze-Based 3D Interaction to Stereo Image Display....Pages 1112-1120
System Design for On-Line Distributed Computational Visualization and Steering....Pages 1121-1130
Multi-user Live Video in a Shared Virtual World for Enhanced Group Collaboration....Pages 1131-1140
An Improved 6DOF Electromagnetic Tracking Algorithm with Anisotropic System Parameters....Pages 1141-1150
Image Texts-Based Navigation for Augmented Game....Pages 1151-1160
A Framework of Collaborative Workspace Based on Multi-stereo Vision and Shared Mixed Reality....Pages 1161-1170
Digital Canvas: A Projection-Space Interaction Tool....Pages 1171-1179
An Augmented Reality Toolkit Based on SEDRIS....Pages 1180-1187
Designing Interactions for Augmented Reality Based Educational Contents....Pages 1188-1197
The ARTable: An AR-Based Tangible User Interface System....Pages 1198-1207
Effects of Guided and Unguided Style Learning on User Attention in a Virtual Environment....Pages 1208-1222
Using Olfactive Virtual Environments for Learning Organic Molecules....Pages 1223-1233
Single Camera Based Optical Tracking System for Personal Entertainment....Pages 1234-1242
Computer Interaction by Camera Tracking....Pages 1243-1251
Haptic Interaction System for Co-evolution with Reactive Virtual Human....Pages 1252-1261
Study on Attitude Measurement System for Virtual Surgery Navigation....Pages 1262-1267
Dynamic User Modeling for Sketch-Based User Interface....Pages 1268-1273
Multi-modal Virtual Environments for Education: From Illusion to Immersion....Pages 1274-1279
Effects of Filtering Policies on Task Performance in a Desktop CVE System....Pages 1280-1283
Computer-Aided Training System of Educational Virtual Dissection Using Visible Korean Human....Pages 1284-1287
Poultry.Internet and Internet Pajama: Novel Systems for Remote Haptic Interaction....Pages 1288-1291
Haptic Puppetry for Interactive Games....Pages 1292-1302
An Image Retrieval System Based on MPEG-7 and XMLDB Query for Digital Museum....Pages 1303-1311
Digitization of Culture Heritage Based on Tour into the Picture....Pages 1312-1320
Virtual Museum Net....Pages 1321-1330
Digital Repair Research on Archeological Relics....Pages 1331-1339
A Teacher’s Tool in Game-Based Learning System: Study and Implementation....Pages 1340-1347
Experiments Towards 3D Immersive Interaction for Digital Libraries....Pages 1348-1357
The Technology of Stereo Photography and Virtual Reality in Research of Virtual Museum....Pages 1358-1365
A Blind Watermarking Algorithm for Animation Used in Digital Heritage....Pages 1366-1370
Content-Based 3D Model Retrieval for Digital Museum....Pages 1371-1376
Digital Restoration of Historical Heritage by Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Images....Pages 1377-1382
Building a Multi-purposes Digital Media System Using MPEG-21 and XML....Pages 1383-1389
Earth and Planetary System Science Game Engine....Pages E1-E1
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