Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Speeches (Abstracts)

   1. An Interactive Folktale System and an Authoring System That Supports Its Realization

      • Ryohei Nakatsu, Yurika Nagai, Kozi Miyazaki, Yurika Nagai, Takenori Wama

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Edutainment and Serious Games – Games Move into Professional Applications

      • José L. Encarnação

      Pages 2-2

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3. Virtual and Augmented Reality in Game and Education

   1. An Efficient Method for Real-Time Ocean Simulation

      • Haogang Chen, Qicheng Li, Guoping Wang, Feng Zhou, Xiaohui Tang, Kun Yang

      Pages 3-11

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   2. The Dynamic Textures for Water Synthesis Based on Statistical Modeling

      • Qian Zhang, TaegKeun Whangbo

      Pages 12-21

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   3. Constructing a Convenient and Efficient System for Making Virtual Human Accentuated by Customized 3D Face and Body

      • Seongah Chin, Jongkyeong Park, Moonwon Choo

      Pages 22-33

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   4. The Design and Implementation of VBS

      • Liang Wang, Yue Qi, Xukun Shen

      Pages 34-43

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   5. View-Dependent Hierarchical Foliage Simplification

      • Qingqiong Deng, Xiaopeng Zhang, Marc Jaeger

      Pages 44-55

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   6. A Novel Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Display with Occlusion and Intensity Matching Support

      • Ya Zhou, Jin-Tao Ma, Qun Hao, Hong Wang, Xian-Peng Liu

      Pages 56-62

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   7. An Immersive Game Using a New Interface : The Well–Tep

      • Donggang Jung, Chulsang Jang, Junhyung Oh, Junggoo Kang, Ingul Oh, Keechul Jung

      Pages 63-68

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   8. Teaching Structured Development of Virtual Reality Systems Using P-VoT

      • Jinseok Seo, Gerard J. Kim

      Pages 69-80

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   9. VR@Home: An Immersive Contents Creation System for 3D User-Generated Contents

      • Wonwoo Lee, Chinta Ram Babu, Jongweon Lee, Woontack Woo

      Pages 81-91

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   10. A 3D Virtual Learning Environment to Foster Communication for Long Term Ill Children

       • Fabian Di Fiore, Pieter Jorissen, Gert Vansichem, Frank Van Reeth

       Pages 92-103

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   11. Interactive Storytelling and Gaming Environments for Museums: The Interactive Storytelling Exhibition Project

       • Michael Danks, Marc Goodchild, Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria, David B. Arnold, Richard Griffiths

       Pages 104-115

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   12. Virtual Environments for Training: From Individual Learning to Collaboration with Humanoids

       • Stéphanie Gerbaud, Nicolas Mollet, Bruno Arnaldi

       Pages 116-127

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   13. Balancing Pedagogy, Game and Reality Components Within a Unique Serious Game for Training Levee Inspection

       • Casper Harteveld, Rui Guimarães, Igor Mayer, Rafael Bidarra

       Pages 128-139

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   14. An Operational VR Platform for Building Virtual Training Environments

       • Nicolas Mollet, Stéphanie Gerbaud, Bruno Arnaldi

       Pages 140-151

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   15. Usability Test of Immersion for Augmented Reality Based Product Design

       • Taejin Ha, Yoonje Chang, Woontack Woo

       Pages 152-161

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   16. The Development of a Virtual Cycling Simulator

       • Yuk-Ming Tang, Mathew Ho-Cheong Tsoi, Daniel Tik-Pui Fong, Pauline Po-Yee Lui, Kin-Chuen Hui, Kai-Ming Chan

       Pages 162-170

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4. Virtual Characters in Games and Education

   1. Visualization Learning for Visually Impaired People

      • Patrick Salamin, Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

      Pages 171-181

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To learn while being entertained is always an effective means in education. With the advance in technologies, in particular graphics, multimedia, and virtual reality te- nologies, this has evolved into the specific area of “Edutainment”. The second int- national conference on edutainment, Edutainment 2007, aimed to provide a forum for practitioners and researchers in the field to share their experiences and findings in this fast growing area. Following the success of Edutainment 2006, which was held in Hangzhou, China, Edutainment 2007 was held during June 11–13, 2007 in Hong Kong. This year, we received 393 submissions from 29 different countries and areas, - cluding China (including Taiwan), USA, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Australia, C- ada, Switzerland, Korea, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. A total of 90 papers were selected, after peer review, for this volume. Topics of these papers fall into six diff- ent areas ranging from fundamental issues in geometry and imaging to virtual reality systems and their applications in entertainment and education. These topics include Virtual Reality in Games and Education, Virtual Characters in Games and Education, E-learning Platforms and Tools, Geometry in Games and Virtual Reality, Vision, Imaging and Video Technology, and Collaborative and Distributed Environments. We are grateful to the International Program Committee and the reviewers for their effort to get all the papers reviewed in a short period of time. We would also like to thank everyone who contributed to organizing the conference.

• Collaborative Learning
• OLAT
• QoS
• algorithms
• animation
• augmented reality
• computer games
• computer-supported collaborative learning
• digital entertainment
• distributed systems
• edutainment
• emotional characters
• game rende
• game-based learning
• ontology

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