Web-based handwriting education with animated virtual teacher

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-80

  Leung, Howard ^a,b   Komura, Taku ^a,c,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Virtual Assistant for Chinese Handwriting Education ^*  (Hong Kong)

^c IEEE

^d ACM SIGGRAPH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Animation; Educational technology; Handwriting analysis; Virtual teaching; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HANDWRITING ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL TEACHING; WEB-BASED LEARNING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 33645504785     PISSN: 15393100     EISSN: 15393119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdet.2006010106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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