Supporting children's social communication skills through interactive narratives with virtual characters

MM'10 - Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2010 International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1111-1114

  Foster, Mary Ellen ^a   Avramides, Katerina ^b   Bernardini, Sara ^b   Chen, Jingying ^c   Frauenberger, Christopher ^d   Lemon, Oliver ^a   Porayska Pomsta, Kaska ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

technology enhanced learning

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE STATE; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; GAZE DIRECTION; INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-TOUCH; MULTIMODAL SYSTEM; REAL TIME; SOCIAL SKILLS; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

COMPUTER VISION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 78650985503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1873951.1874163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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