The enormous economic, political and social problems of the developing world call for creating effective, equitable, and socially responsible mass media programs that will solve human problems and benefit society. The present article investigates the use of the entertainment-education strategy in mass communication, especially focusing on the potential of telenovelas in addressing problems of n...

The entertainment industry is undergoing significant transformation and growth. The goal of the entertainment agency is to establish and manage the careers of individual artists. This research develops an approach to evaluate the potential of entertainment artists and construct individualized career maps. Data mining techniques are used to correlate the entertainment news on the Internet with t...

Emerging technologies offer exciting new ways of using entertainment technology to create fantastic play experiences and foster interactions between players. Evaluating entertainment technology is challenging because success isn’t defined in terms of productivity and performance, but in terms of enjoyment and interaction. Current subjective methods of evaluating entertainment technology aren’t ...

Games have always been of interest to all age groups. With the advancement in technology and increase in number of users of personal computers, increased number of games is introduced in market. This is resulting in efforts, both for the developers in writing scripts for games and for the end users to select a game which is more entertaining. In this work we present a solution to both the issue...

introductionmountainous region of tuchal, with a height about 3962 meters above sea level, is located in north of tehran,capital of iran. with regards to population growth, and increasing urbanization, and air pollution issues, it isknown as one of the most important recreational area for health recovery and relaxation among people living intehran. as these spaces are known as public goods with...

This paper presents an overview of the current field of entertainment robotics based on experiences as spectator during the RoboCup 1999 and building an experimental entertainment robot based on the LEGO platform with digital color camera and various other sensors. RoboCat is a robot cat prototype that shows cat-like behaviour in the real-life environment of typical households. For behavioural ...

▪ This article starts with a brief review of the European Employment Strategy (EES) and a general evaluation of its scope and limitations, then provides an assessment of the five-year review conducted by the European Commission. It examines the new form that has been given to the EES for the 2003 exercise, on the basis of the conclusions drawn from the five-year review. It argues that this chan...

—This article describes the design of the two application scenarios of the Virtual Human project and its integration into the Virtual Human system. This includes overall concepts and considerations of the demonstrators for the two application scenarios (learning, edutainment) as well as underlying methodic-didactic aspects for knowledge transmission and narrative concepts for story structure an...

Our mixed-reality installation features two cooperating characters that integrate multiple users by location-based tracking into the interaction, allowing for dynamic storylines.