A Pictorial Interaction Language for Children to Communicate with Cultural Virtual Characters
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چکیده
In this paper, we outline the creation of an engaging and intuitive pictorial language as an interaction modality to be used by school children aged 9 to 11 years to interact with virtual characters in a cultural learning environment. Interaction takes place on a touch screen tablet computer linked to a desktop computer on which the characters are displayed. To investigate the benefit of such an interaction style, we conducted an evaluation study to compare the pictorial interaction language with a menu-driven version for the same system. Results indicate that children found the pictorial interaction language more fun and more exciting than the menus, with users expressing a desire to interact for longer using the pictorial interaction language. Thus, we think the pictorial interaction language can help support the children’s experiential learning, allowing them to concentrate on the content of the cultural
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