This paper proposes a real-time mesh animation framework to animate any kind of virtual characters by using Kinect. A deformation module is first predefined by constructing propagation fields and accordingly the isolines in each field for a character. During animation, motions captured by Kinect are retargeted to movements of users’ specified handle constraints, which induce the deformation mod...

This research aims to investigate the affects and advantages of the various media so that instructions and learning can be more effective. The principle of redundancy states that students learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and text. This study applied the redundancy principle and investigated how students benefited from different types of animation and mod...

Research carried out so far has failed to establish systematic learning benefits of animated graphics over static ones, even in the case of dynamic systems. We hypothesize that animation promotes the understanding of dynamic systems if delivery features decrease the perceptual and cognitive load of processing the animation. We therefore report an experimental study investigating the effects of ...