Transactions on Edutainment IV

1. Front Matter

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2. The Study and Design of Adaptive Learning System Based on Fuzzy Set Theory

   • Bing Jia, Shaochun Zhong, Tianyang Zheng, Zhiyong Liu

   Pages 1-11

3. Modeling Personalized Learning Styles in a Web-Based Learning System

   • Chia-Cheng Hsu, Kun-Te Wang, Yueh-Min Huang

   Pages 12-21

4. An Emotional Agent in Virtual Learning Environment

   • Ailiya, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao

   Pages 22-33

5. Lunar Surface Collaborative Browsing System for Science Museum Exhibitions

   • Kikuo Asai, Tomotsugu Kondo, Akira Mizuki, Mark Billinghurst

   Pages 34-43

6. Towards a Structural Model for Intention to Play a Digital Educational Game

   • Xu Sun, Effie Lai-Chong Law

   Pages 44-55

7. Case Study of FISS: Digital Game Based Learning for a Broad Range of Ages

   • Johannes Bufe, Detlef Krömker

   Pages 56-67

8. Woodment: Web-Based Collaborative Multiplayer Serious Game

   • Viktor Wendel, Maxim Babarinow, Tobias Hörl, Sergej Kolmogorov, Stefan Göbel, Ralf Steinmetz

   Pages 68-78

9. Learning with Virtual Reality: Its Effects on Students with Different Learning Styles

   • Elinda Ai-Lim Lee, Kok Wai Wong, Chun Che Fung

   Pages 79-90

10. Automatic Motion Generation Based on Path Editing from Motion Capture Data

    • Xiaoyue Guo, Shibiao Xu, Wujun Che, Xiaopeng Zhang

    Pages 91-104

11. Exploration of Metaphorical and Contextual Affect Sensing in a Virtual Improvisational Drama

    • Li Zhang

    Pages 105-116

12. Synchronizable Objects in Distributed Multimedia Applications

    • Jun Hu, Loe Feijs

    Pages 117-129

13. Anisotropic Cloth Modeling for Material Fabric

    • Mingmin Zhang, Zhigengx Pan, Qingfeng Mi

    Pages 130-144

14. A Virtual Reality Simulator Prototype for Learning and Assessing Phaco-sculpting Skills

    • Kup-Sze Choi

    Pages 145-156

15. An Augmented Reality Nanomanipulator for Learning Nanophysics: The “NanoLearner” Platform

    • Florence Marchi, Sylvain Marliere, Jean Loup Florens, Annie Luciani, Joel Chevrier

    Pages 157-175

16. Fast Prototyping of Virtual Reality Based Surgical Simulators with PhysX-enabled GPU

    • Wai-Man Pang, Jing Qin, Yim-Pan Chui, Pheng-Ann Heng

    Pages 176-188

17. Dance-Based ExerGaming: User Experience Design Implications for Maximizing Health Benefits Based on Exercise Intensity and Perceived Enjoyment

    • Alasdair G. Thin, Nicola Poole

    Pages 189-199

18. Learning Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion Skills through an Edutainment Game

    • Wing-Yin Chan, Dong Ni, Wai-Man Pang, Jing Qin, Yim-Pan Chui, Simon Chun-Ho Yu et al.

    Pages 200-214

19. Sketch-Based 3D Face Modeling for Virtual Character

    • Wei Jiang, Zhengxing Sun

    Pages 215-228

20. A Framework for Virtual Hand Haptic Interaction

    • Xiaoxia Han, Huagen Wan

    Pages 229-240

E-learning and digital entertainment techniques, tools and systems are becoming popular and can be found in many real-world educational applications in many co- tries. The driving force behind these technologies is the rapidly growing requirements of edutainment, especially from the perspective of the users. This has led to the increasing interest of researchers in this area. The articles in this issue give a rich overview of how edutainment technologies can be creatively used for training and education purposes. The first 12 articles of this issue represent a selection of outstanding contributions from Edutainment 2010, the 5th International Conference on E-learning and Games, held in Changchun, China, in August 2010. The main purpose of this event is to faci- tate the discussion, presentation, and information exchange on the scientific and te- nological developments in the emerging field of digital entertainment techniques and systems for education. These 12 papers concentrated on three aspects: e-learning s- tem and applications, game techniques for learning, and virtual reality techniques for entertainment. They are closely related to the topics of this journal.

• Web
• e-learning
• educational entertainment
• human-computer interaction
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• learning
• modeling
• multimedia

• State Key Lab of CAD&CG, DEARC – Digital Entertainment and Animation Research Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  Zhigeng Pan

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Adrian David Cheok

• University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

  Wolfgang Müller

• Institute of Automation, LIAMA, The Sino-French Lab in Computer Science, NLPR, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  Xiaopeng Zhang

• School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

  Kevin Wong

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