ERIC Number: EJ996675
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1939-1382
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A Mobile Mixed-Reality Environment for Children's Storytelling Using a Handheld Projector and a Robot
Sugimoto, Masanori
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, v4 n3 p249-260 Jul-Sep 2011
This paper describes a system called GENTORO that uses a robot and a handheld projector for supporting children's storytelling activities. GENTORO differs from many existing systems in that children can make a robot play their own story in a physical space augmented by mixed-reality technologies. Pilot studies have been conducted to clarify the design requirements of GENTORO from both technological and practical viewpoints. A user study indicates that GENTORO's ability to enable manipulation of a robot using a handheld projector in a physical space can enhance children's embodied participation in, and their level of engagement with, their storytelling activities, and can support children in designing and expressing creative and original stories. (Contains 2 tables and 10 figures.)
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Robotics, Projection Equipment, Story Telling, Handheld Devices, Children, Information Technology, Cooperative Learning, Computer Simulation, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan
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