TY - GEN
T1 - Technology-enhanced role-play for intercultural learning contexts
AU - Lim, Mei Yii
AU - Kriegel, Michael
AU - Aylett, Ruth
AU - Enz, Sibylle
AU - Vannini, Natalie
AU - Hall, Lynne
AU - Rizzo, Paola
AU - Leichtenstern, Karin
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Role-play can be a powerful educational tool, especially when dealing with social or ethical issues. However while other types of education activity have been routinely technology-enhanced for some time, the specific problems of supporting educational role-play with technology have only begun to be tackled recently. Within the eCIRCUS project we have designed a framework for technology-enhanced role-play with the aim of educating adolescents about intercultural empathy. This work was influenced by related fields such as intelligent virtual agents, interactive narrative and pervasive games. In this paper we will describe the different components of our role-play technology by means of a prototype implementation of this technology, the ORIENT showcase. Furthermore we will present some preliminary results of our first evaluation trials of ORIENT. © 2009 Springer.
AB - Role-play can be a powerful educational tool, especially when dealing with social or ethical issues. However while other types of education activity have been routinely technology-enhanced for some time, the specific problems of supporting educational role-play with technology have only begun to be tackled recently. Within the eCIRCUS project we have designed a framework for technology-enhanced role-play with the aim of educating adolescents about intercultural empathy. This work was influenced by related fields such as intelligent virtual agents, interactive narrative and pervasive games. In this paper we will describe the different components of our role-play technology by means of a prototype implementation of this technology, the ORIENT showcase. Furthermore we will present some preliminary results of our first evaluation trials of ORIENT. © 2009 Springer.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350600781&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04052-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04052-8_7
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3642040519
SN - 9783642040511
VL - 5709 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 73
EP - 84
BT - Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2009 - 8th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing
Y2 - 3 September 2009 through 5 September 2009
ER -