Motivate Them to Communicate

Author

Popovici, Dorin Mircea ; Septseault, Cyril ; Querrec, Ronan

Author_Institution

OVIDIUS Univ. of Constanta

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 2006

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

208

Abstract

In the following, by considering the communication and the interaction within collaborative multi-cultural virtual environments as the most important motivational dimensions of user (children in particular) experience, we discuss the use of two metaphors, the virtual theater and the virtual classroom, in order to support collaborative learning. The educational virtual environment is presented as a shared informational agent-based space from both modeling (structure and evolution point of views) and technical (implementation) perspectives. The cooperation within the environment is preserved by interfering with virtual actors. Current implementations are based on a client-server architecture. VEHA API is used for environment description, VRML, C++, and Java are used as modeling and programming languages, and AReVi as graphical rendering and interaction API. Supplementary ARToolkit is used for hand-made marker-based interaction

Keywords

C++ language; Java; application program interfaces; client-server systems; educational aids; educational computing; groupware; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; ARToolkit; AReVi; C++; Java; VEHA API; VRML; application program interface; client-server architecture; collaborative learning; collaborative multicultural virtual environment; communication interaction; educational virtual environment; graphical rendering; hand-made marker-based interaction; modeling language; motivational dimension; programming language; shared informational agent-based space; virtual actor; virtual classroom; virtual theater; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer languages; Context; Educational institutions; Internet; Java; Rendering (computer graphics); Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyberworlds, 2006. CW '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2671-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CW.2006.28

Filename

4030846