Transactions on Edutainment IX

309 Pages·2013·18.266 MB·English

by  James Birchall, Christos Gatzidis (auth.), Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Fotis Liarokapis (eds.)

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KeioUniversity
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UniversityofEducation
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Preface
In this issue, one of the focuses is on “serious games”, which covers a broad
rangeofapplicationsfromAdobeFlash-basedapplicationstofullyimmersive3D
environments where users interact with large volumes of data through sophis-
ticated digital interfaces. The shift toward immersive world applications being
used to support, among others, education and training activities marks the be-
ginning of new challenges that present considerable scope for collaborative and
multi-disciplinary research solutions, as well as opportunities for innovative de-
velopment.Thesetofpapersonseriousgames(the“specialsection”)isselected
from the VS-Games 2011 conference, which addressed some of the significant
challenges of the cross-disciplinary community that works around these serious
application areas by bringing the community together to share case studies of
practice, to present virtual-world infrastructure developments, as well as new
frameworks,methodologies andtheories, and to begin the process of developing
shared cross-disciplinary outputs. This special section comprising eight papers
is focused on educational aspects of serious games and virtual worlds for seri-
ous applications. Papers were selected on the basis of fundamental ideas and
concepts rather than the thoroughness of techniques deployed.
The special section on serious games starts with a paper by Birchall and
Gatzidis,entitled“ThePeriodicTableofElementsviaanXNA-PoweredSerious
Game.” The paper presents the production of a serious game, which illustrates
boththepotentialofacost-efficientplatformitselfforprogrammersofamedium
skill set but also the possibilities of designing to completion a fully functional
game that can be used as part of secondary education chemistry curriculums in
orderto teachthe importanttopic of the periodic table ofelements.The second
paper is by Christopoulos et al., entitled “Digital Storytelling Within Virtual
Environments:TheBattleofThermopylae,”focusesonaninteractivevirtualre-
alityapplicationdevelopedforthemuseumofThermopylaelocatedatthesiteof
theoriginalbattle,nearthe cityofLamiainGreece.Storytellingtechniquesand
principles ofmodernvideo gameswere usedto disseminate historicalknowledge
about the battle and the associated legends.
ThethirdpaperisbyBacklundetal.,entitled“GamesonPrescription!Eval-
uationoftheElinorConsoleforHome-BasedStrokeRehabilitation.”Itpresents
the feasibility of Elinor, a game-based system for stroke rehabilitation in the
home. The Elinor prototype has been positively evaluated with respect to its
usability, user acceptance, and motivational factors as well as its rehabilitation
effect. The fourth paper is by Chilcott and Smith entitled “An Analysis of the
Potential to Utilize Virtual Worlds to Enhance Edutainment and Improve the
Wellbeing of the Ageing Population.” This paper identifies the importance of
developing and designing tailoredvirtual places which older members of society
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can utilize easily and safely within this context; with a focused application of
addressing social isolation, enabling wellbeing and improving edutainment.
The fifth paper is by Vosinakis et al., entitled “Course Lectures as Problem-
BasedLearningInterventionsinVirtualWorlds,”andinvestigatesthesuitability
ofVirtualWorlds (VWs) as a platformfor hostingPBL (Problem-BasedLearn-
ing) activities and explores their affordances in terms of collaboration support
andlearningeffectiveness.ResultsrevealseveralencouragingfindingsaboutPBL
and collaboration mediated by VWs, and lead to a series of recommendations.
ThesixthpaperisbyMathieuetal.,entitled“VirtualCustomersinaMultiagent
Training Application.” The paper argues that a relevant way to train a sales-
person on their daily activities (e.g., customer relationship management, store
management,andstockcontrol)consistsinimmersingthemina3Denvironment
populated with realistic virtual customers.
TheseventhpaperisbyPaliokasetal.,entitled“Game-BasedEarlyProgram-
mingEducation:TheMoreYouPlay,theMoreYouLearn.”Thepaperexamines
various widely known mini-languages with an emphasis on LOGO implementa-
tions and follows a combinational route to take advantage of both Game-Based
Learning(GBL)andtheuseofmini-languagesinthedesignofanewLOGO-like
environment. The final paper of this special section is by Hulusic and Rizvic,
entitled“StoryGuidedVirtualEnvironmentsinEducationalApplications”.The
paperdemonstratesanewconceptofusingstory-guidedvirtualenvironmentsfor
culturalheritagevirtualreconstruction,withlivevirtualguidersinaninteractive
Flash format.
Besidesthepapersonthetopicofseriousgamesinthespecialsection,wehave
another13papersselectedfromdifferentssourcessuchasDMDCM2010,EGVR
2011,CIDE2011,ICVRV2011,DMDCM2011,andordinarysubmissions.They
are described briefly in the following.
In the paper by Xunxiang Li, entitled “Rendering Technology of 3D Digital
Chinese Ink-Wash Landscape Paintings Based on Maya,” the author’s work in-
cludes analyzing and simulating the techniques of traditional Chinese ink-wash
landscape paintings, e.g. the ways of brush moving and ink painting, exploring
the digital rendering modes with the characteristics of wrinkled-texture paint-
ings. In the paper by Qian Li et al., entitled “Effects of RPG on Middle School
Players’ Intrapersonal Intelligence,” the authors test the intrapersonal intelli-
genceof192middle schoolstudentswhoplayrole-playinggame(RPG)byques-
tionnaire, aiming at exploring the effects of RPG on intrapersonal intelligence.
The results showed that RPG has a positive effect on students’ intrapersonal
intelligence,andthe effectis subjectto factorssuchasage,frequency ofplaying
games, and RPG type. The paper by Jun Dai et al., entitled “Implementation
of Lushan Virtual Digital Plant Museum”, introduces the application of virtual
technology in the design process of the Lushan Virtual Digital Plant Museum.
In the paper by Keyang Cheng, entitled “Pedestrian Detection Based on
Kernel Discriminative Sparse Representation,” the author puts forward a novel
frameworkforpedestriandetectiontasks,andproposesamodelwithbothsparse
reconstruction and class discrimination components, jointly optimized during
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dictionary learning. The author presents an efficient pedestrian-detection sys-
tem using mixing sparse features of HOG, FOG, and CSS to combine into a
Kernel classifier. The paper by XiaoJuan Hu et al., entitled “The Design and
ImplementationofComputer-AidedChineseMedicatedDietSystem,”describes
researchideasandimplementationtechnologiesonChinese MedicatedDietSys-
tem (CMDS). The design and implementation of CMDS are discussed as key
issuesincludingthedesignofpersistencelayeranddatabaseaccess.Inthepaper
by Desheng Lv et al., entitled “Music-Driven Emotion Model Applied in Digi-
talized Dance Performance of Sacrificial Ceremony for Confucius,” a digitalized
system, which was developed to reconstruct the musical dance performance of
the ceremony,includes musicanalysisbasedonanemotionmodelandanaction
movementlibrarybasedonavirtualmodelforthechoreographywiththemotion
capture technique, and the action correlation with a music-dance match.
In the paper by Pengyu Zhu et al., entitled “Real-Time Rendering Frame-
workintheVirtualHomeDesignSystem,”the authorsintroduceahomedesign
systemwith its greatfunctions and frameworkdesign,including the scene man-
agementbased onthe Cell&Portalsystem, improvedvariance shadow mapping,
and the recently popular real-time rendering framework called deferred light-
ing. In the paper by Aiping Wang et al., entitled “Multiple-Cue-Based Visual
Object Contour Tracking with Incremental Learning,” the author proposes a
visual object contour tracking algorithm using a multi-cue fusion particle filter.
A novelcontour evolutionenergy is proposed which integrates an incrementally
learnt model of object appearance with a parametric snake model. In the paper
byLiangjieZhangetal.,entitled“BuildingVirtualEntertainmentEnvironment
withTiledDisplayWallandMotionTracking,”animmersiveandinteractiveen-
tertainment environment that integrates tiled display wall and motion tracking
techniquesisintroduced.Afastcalibrationmethodisproposedtoachievegeom-
etry alignment and color consistency of the tiled display wall. A robust motion
trackingalgorithmisdesignedtoobtaintheplayer’smovingdirectionandspeed
from video streams captured by a Web camera.
InthepaperbyShiduDongetal.,entitled“ACalibrationMethodforRemov-
ingtheEffectofInfraredCameraSelf-RadianceontheAccuracyofTemperature
Measurement,”anovelthree-phasemethodisproposed,whichisoutlinedbelow.
First,fromasetofsamples,howthepixelvalueofeachblackbodyvarieswiththe
camera temperature is determined. Second, at the given camera temperature,
the calibration function, describing how the pixel value varies with the temper-
ature of blackbody, is formed. Finally, with the aid of the calibration function,
the temperatureofthe probeobjectcanbe determinedbyits pixelvalue.Inthe
paper by Shi Yan et al., entitled “Enjoyingof TraditionalChinese Shadow Play
– Across-culturestudy”,a cross-culturestudy wasconductedto investigatethe
effect of Piying-induced emotion on heart rate and heart rate variability during
Piying perception and performance. The result confirmed that Piying perfor-
mancewasfarmoreeffectiveinemotioninductionthanPiyingperception.Inthe
paper by Li Xiao et al., entitled “A Patch-Based Data Reorganization Method
forCouplingLarge-ScaleSimulationsandParallelVisualization,”apatch-based
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data reorganization method was presented for this coupling through a parallel
file system. Based on the method, simulation data sets in application codes are
reorganized by patch and written into many files in parallel. The last paper by
Eric Klopfer et al., entitled “The Boom and Bust and Boom of Educational
Games,” is an overview paper on education games.
All the papers in the special section and on other topics clearly demonstrate
the use of serious games and virtual worlds for edutainment applications. This
isanewareaandinthecomingyearsanumberofresearchissueswillbefurther
explored and new ideas will be developed. Sincere thanks to all the people who
helped to make this special issue as well as all the authors for contributing
their work and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and
suggestions.
January 2013 Fotis Liarokapis
Zhigeng Pan
Transactions on Edutainment
This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating inno-
vative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations,
state-of-the-artmethods,andtoolsinalldifferentgenresofedutainment,suchas
game-basedlearningandseriousgames,interactivestorytelling,virtuallearning
environments,VR-basededucation,andrelatedfields.Itcoversaspectsfromed-
ucational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics,
artificial intelligence, and systems design.
Editors-in-Chief
Zhigeng Pan Hangzhou Normal University, China
Adrian David Cheok Keio University, Japan
Wolfgang Mu¨ller University of Education Weingarten,
Germany
Managing Editor
Yi Li Nanjing Normal University, China
Editorial Board
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Judith Brown Brown Cunningham Associates, USA
Yiyu Cai NTU Singapore
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Jayfus Tucker Doswell Juxtopia Group, USA
Sara de Freitas The Serious Games Institute, UK
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Masa Inakage Keio University, Japan
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