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Chapter and Conference Paper
“SynMax”: A Mathematics Application Tool for Down Syndrome Children
Research has shown that the number skills delayed relative to reading skills for Down Syndrome (DS) children. The DS children use the same learning strategy as the normal children, but their learning stages de...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Visual Measurement Model on Human Capital and ICT Dimensions of a Knowledge Society (KS) Framework for Malaysia towards an Innovative Digital Economy
This paper outlines the research conducted to test a visual measurement model of the Human Capital and ICT dimensions to develop a framework of a Knowledge-based Society for Malaysia towards an Innovative Digi...
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A Visual Art Education Tool to Create Logo (APH-Pensil) Based on the Fundamental Design Theory Approach
This paper outlines the research conducted to develop and evaluate a Visual Art Education tool (APH-Pensil), based on the fundamental design theory. This tool consists of six modules. The Art element module he...
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Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis
This paper describes preliminary results of a research performed in the framework of the Enactive project (EU IST NoE Enactive). The aim of this research is to improve believability of a virtual character usin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Little Big Difference: Gender Aspects and Gender-Based Adaptation in Educational Games
Computer games are tremendously successful and this is why the potential of using this medium for educational purposes is increasingly recognized and researched. However, as new learning technologies need to b...
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Affect Detection and an Automated Improvisational AI Actor in E-Drama
Enabling machines to understand emotions and feelings of the human users in their natural language textual input during interaction is a challenging issue in Human Computing. Our work presented here has tried ...
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Developments in Affect Detection from Text in Open-Ended Improvisational E-Drama
We report progress on adding affect-detection to an existing program for virtual dramatic improvisation, monitored by a human director. To partially automate the directors’ functions, we have partially impleme...
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Haptic Interaction System for Co-evolution with Reactive Virtual Human
Interactions that provide motivating activities, and perform mutual feedback truly in human-scale spaces, were not suggested in any studies. In this paper, we propose and implement a haptic interaction system ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic image processing in developmental testing of visual-motor integration
Figure copying and related tasks are commonly used in the evaluation of perceptual and motor-perceptual functioning, yet there are many potential difficulties associated with the administration of such tests a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A new approach in designing low vision aids (LVA)
In reading text, two processes can be discriminated: 1) the search for desired information on the page, and 2) the process of processing information once the desired spot on the page has been found. A global o...