This paper investigates how graphically displayed intelligent virtual actors, mobile devices and innovative interaction modalities can support and enhance educational role-play as well as deepen the sense of engagement and presence in participants to produce more successful learning. The discussion will be presented using a showcase from the eCIRCUS project, ORIENT, an application combining vir...

Maternal addiction is a serious problem with long lasting consequences for children’s social, emotional and cognitive development. Mothers who abuse substances have higher rates of reported child abuse, neglect and foster care placement. There is evidence that drugs such as cocaine may affect infant development both directly, via in utero exposure, and indirectly via alterations in maternal car...

NIST TO PLAY LEADERSHIP ROLE IN ILAC A NIST representative was unanimously elected vicechair of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation at the 14th meeting of ILAC in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, recently. As a result, the NIST representative becomes the chair-elect and will assume that position when the group meets in Australia in 1998. ILAC was established in 1977 as the Interna...

One of the important tasks at any stage teaching a foreign language, including French, is to maintain and improve pronunciation skills. The phonetic process that facilitates formation such skills rhyme.

How do designers of interactive media work on the dynamic aspects of their designs? Previous research has emphasised the role of gestures to express what users and computers do. This paper contributes with a detailed analysis of interaction design master students’ enactments. Two kinds of enactive means for expressing behaviour are identified: interaction walkthroughs and improvised role play.