Overview
- Shows how developing and transitioning leading-edge new media and human interface technology can help developing countries to be creative content creators and part of a high impact global market
- Explores how art and culture in the developing world can lead to unique computer entertainment and applications
- Shows how easily available, inexpensive off-the-shelf technologies can be utilized in the design and creation of new entertainment technologies by researchers and practitioners
Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
‘Entertainment media’ are entertainment products and services that rely on digital technology and include traditional media (such as movies, TV, computer animation etc) as well as emerging services for wireless and broadband, electronic toys, video games, edutainment, and location-based entertainment (from PC game rooms to theme parks).
Whilst most of the digital entertainment industry is found in the developed countries such as USA, Europe, and Japan, the decreasing costs of computer and programming technologies enables developing countries to really benefit from entertainment media in two ways: as creators and producers of games and entertainment for the global market and as a way to increase creativity and learning among the youth of the developing world.
Focusing specifically on initiatives that use entertainment technologies to promote economic development, education, creativity and cultural dissemination, this book explores how current technology and the use of off-the-shelf technologies (such as cheap sensors, Kinect, Arduino and others) can be exploited to achieve more innovative and affordable ways to harness the entertainment power of creating. It poses questions such as ‘How can we convert consumers of entertainment into creators of entertainment?’ ‘How can digital entertainment make a contribution to the emerging world?’.
Academic researchers and students in human-computer interaction, entertainment computing, learning technologies will find the content thought-provoking, and companies and professionals in game and entertainment technology, mobile applications, social networking etc. will find this a valuable resource in developing new products and new markets.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entertaining the Whole World
Editors: Adrian David Cheok, Anton Nijholt, Teresa Romão
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6446-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6445-6Published: 26 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7222-2Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6446-3Published: 12 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 156
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computers and Education, Computing Milieux, Educational Technology