Title :
Interactive e-Hon: automatic media transformation for children´s understanding
Author :
Sumi, Kaoru ; Tanaka, Katsumi
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes a medium, called interactive e-Hon, for helping children to understand contents from the Web. It works by transforming electronic contents into an easily understandable "storybook world". In this world, easy-to-understand contents are generated by creating 3D animations that include contents and metaphors, and by using a child-parent model with dialogue expression and a question-answering style comprehensible to children.
Keywords :
Internet; computer animation; content management; interactive systems; multimedia systems; 3D animations; automatic media transformation; child-parent model; children understanding; dialogue expression; electronic contents; interactive e-Hon; storybook world; Animation; Bridges; Cognitive science; Communications technology; Concrete; Humans; Informatics; Natural languages; Senior citizens; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Active Media Technology, 2005. (AMT 2005). Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9035-0
DOI :
10.1109/AMT.2005.1505354