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Smart Ambience Games for Children with Learning Difficulties

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Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment (Edutainment 2006)

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Smart Ambience Games (or SAG) combines interactive media with smart ambience technologies to create a motivating environment for children with learning difficulties to overcome barriers in art education. Through a development of innovative motion and gesture capture and detection techniques, we create a smart ambience that enables students to interact intuitively with a virtual environment to create a rich variety of multimedia forms and space without the use of specific physical tools. Through various interactive activities and game scenarios, particular subjects such as history and mathematics can be taught through developed VR games that can help students to overcome inhibitions related to learning, become more active learners and stimulate creativity in art education.

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  1. AIMtech Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Horace H. S. Ip & Belton Kwong

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Fraunhofer IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Strasse 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Holger Diener

  4. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Xiaogang Jin

  5. Digital Storytelling Dept, ZGDV e.V., Rundeturmstr. 10, P.O. Box, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  6. School of Management, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, P.R. China

    Li Li

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Ip, H.H.S., Kwong, B. (2006). Smart Ambience Games for Children with Learning Difficulties. In: Pan, Z., Aylett, R., Diener, H., Jin, X., Göbel, S., Li, L. (eds) Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment. Edutainment 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3942. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11736639_60

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