Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated humanlike characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. ECA is a powerful tool in representing the differences in cultural aspects and suitable for interactive training or edutainment systems. This paper presents the preliminary results of the development of a culture adaptive virtual tour guide agent for se...

Edutainment robots are robots designed to participate in people’s education and in their entertainment. One of the tasks of edutainment robots is to play with their human partners, but most of them offer a limited pool of games. Moreover, it is difficult to add new games to them. This lack of flexibility could shorten their life cycle. This paper presents a social robot on which several robotic...

Copyright © 2002 International Communication Association The impact of entertainment-education messages on beliefs, attitudes, and behavior is typically explained in terms of social cognitive theory principles. However, important additional insights regarding reasons why entertainment-education messages have effects can be derived from the processing of persuasive content in narrative messages....

Video has been an important media for communications, education and entertainment for many decades. Streaming video over the distributed environment is extremely popular, because of its higher availability, efficiently in playback delay and scalable load management. Many applications like e-learning, Skype, YouTube and games, are require simultaneous streaming of video from several sources to a...

The importance of visual communications has increased tremendously in the last decades. The progress in micro{electronics and computer technology together with the creation of networks operating with various channel capacities is the basis of an infrastructure for a new era of telecommunications. New applications are preparing a revolution in every day's life of our modern society. Emerging app...

Network-based services such as surveillance, chatbot and entertainment are becoming more popular, and service robot platform with mobililty can be used as human caring services in infant or elderly care. This paper presents developemnt of a service robot platfrom and its software with a cooperative server-client control ability for human care and edutainment. The experimental results show the f...

“The information infrastructure will enable all Americans to access information and communicate with each other easily, reliably, securely and cost effectively in any medium-voice, data, image or video-anytime, anywhere. This capability will enhance the productivity of work and lead to dramatic improvements in social services, education and entertainment.” Vision for a 21st Century Information ...

The MediaEvo Project aims to develop a multi-channel and multi-sensory platform for edutainment in cultural heritage for the realization of a digital didactic game oriented towards the knowledge of medieval history and society by means of the integration of human sciences and data processing technologies. It deals with historical findings, geo-morphological inquiries, data management systems an...