VR systems are important for many applications such as education and entertainment. In this paper, we design a method to construct intelligent characters in virtual environments based on group characteristics. Every character is encapsulated as an agent model; a combination of the geometric model describing characters’ spatial characteristics, and the behavioral model with a reasoning function....

eShadow is a storytelling tool that can be used from both adults and children in order to create, record, share and watch digital shadow theater plays. It is based on the traditional Greek Shadow Theatre, which has a long history of usage in entertainment and education, particularly pre-school and primary school education. We present our experience from the use of eShadow in the ALICE ALPPs con...

A growing body of research indicates that entertainment-education programming can be an effective way to deliver prosocial and health messages. Some have even speculated that entertainment-education may be more effective than overtly persuasive messages in certain circumstances. Despite empirical advances in this area, more work is needed to understand fully what makes entertainment-education u...

This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a Kinect-based game called Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to investigate possible contributions of game-based learning in a virtual language classroom at a state university in Ankara, Turkey. A quasi-experimental design where the treatment group (N= 26) was subjected to kinect-based learning environments, and the control group (N = 26) ...

Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enable the daily activities and interests such as dining, medicine, lifestyle, traffic, education and entertainment has recently become a world wide trend. Moreover, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is nowadays one of the most important techniques to realize services in industry. Therefore, we would attempt to give attention to what t...

Robot soccer has evolved into a very dynamic and competitive field within the last few years. Many different robot soccer leagues now exist, the league most strongly dedicated to entertainment and edutainment is currently FIRA MiroSot. It has now reached 11 vs. 11 robots sized 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm on a 440 x 280 cm field and is therefore the first robot soccer league to physically play 11 vs. 11 ...

In this paper, we describe an approach to academic teaching in computer science using storytelling as a means for background research to hypermedia and virtual reality topics. It is shown that narrative activity within the context of a Hypermedia Novel related to educational content can enhance motivation for selfconducted learning and in parallel lead to an edutainment system of its own. The n...

In this survey, we describe different categories of edutainment robots. We classify these in robots with no interaction, with limited interaction, and extensive interaction possibilities. A non-exhaustive market survey shows that there are numerous edutainment robots in all categories, and psychological considerations suggest that the systems with extensive interaction and construction possibil...

This paper reports on interdisciplinary findings and first results of the ongoing EU-funded R&D project “art-E-fact”. Within the project, a generic platform for building a particular genre of Mixed Reality interactive storytelling experiences is under development. It enables artists to script interactive dialogues for multiple virtual characters and a human participant, as well as to freely des...