Title
Exploitation of multiplayer interaction and development of virtual puppetry storytelling using gesture control and stereoscopic devices.
Abstract
With the rapid development of human-computer interaction technologies, the new media generation demands novel learning experiences with natural interaction and immersive experience. Considering that digital storytelling is a powerful pedagogical tool for young children, in this paper, we design an immersive storytelling environment that allows multiple players to use naturally interactive hand gestures to manipulate virtual puppetry for assisting narration. A set of multimodal interaction techniques is presented for a hybrid user interface that integrates existing 3D visualization and interaction devices including head-mounted displays and depth motion sensor. In this system, the young players could intuitively use hand gestures to manipulate virtual puppets to perform a story and interact with props in a virtual stereoscopic environment. We have conducted a user experiment with four young children for pedagogical evaluation, as well as system acceptability and interactivity evaluation by postgraduate students. The results show that our framework has great potential to stimulate learning abilities of young children through collaboration tasks. The stereoscopic head-mounted display outperformed the traditional monoscopic display in a comparison between the two.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/cav.1727
COMPUTER ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
Keywords
Field
DocType
children learning,gesture-based control,interactive storytelling,stereoscopic,virtual puppetry,virtual reality
Interactivity,Virtual reality,Computer science,Gesture recognition,Artificial intelligence,Interactive storytelling,Computer vision,Multimodal interaction,Storytelling,Simulation,Digital storytelling,User interface,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28.0
5
1546-4261
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
14
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Liang1148.24
Jian Chang215731.43
Shujie Deng3213.24
Can Chen4838.27
Ruofeng Tong546649.69
Jian Zhang6595112.97