M y dogs, Maggie and Teddie, have RFID chips implanted near their shoulders to help identify them if they’re ever lost or taken. Fortunately, we’ve never had to use the chips for their intended purpose, but RFID enables other proactive and entertaining possibilities. My 17-year-old son is an excellent developer and eager to build experimental software, so together we plan on exploiting this tec...

the writers of this article present a thematical study of children’s poetry in the seventies(1990s). to do this, they have first studied a collection of children’s poetry in the seventies and then they have classified the themes of this kind of poetry into six different categories including: naturalistic, entertaining and joyful, socio-political, religious, didactic and ethical themes. the writ...

At a natural history museum in Chicago, a series of animations puts a humourous spin on important concepts of evolution. These short films demonstrate the tensions between design goals that include both entertainment and education, and raise important questions about the use of animation for teaching complex processes such as evolution. This study reports the findings from clinical interviews w...

This master thesis is a part of a project conducted by the Centre of Speech Technology at the Department of Language, Speech and Music at the Royal Institute of Technology. The focus of this master thesis has been on how to make computerized language learning more entertaining and stimulating. Computer games in general can create an addictive and motivational encouraging stimulation for players...

Abstract Despite the immense success of China’s Double Eleven online shopping festival (OSF), research on how OSFs’ unique atmosphere relates to customer behavior has been scarce. This study investigates influence OSF consumers’ participation based stimulus–organism–response framework. Based data from 239 young Chinese consumers (in their 20 s and 30 s) using structural equation modeling, this ...

People retell events for different reasons. Sometimes they try to be accurate, other times entertaining. What characterizes retellings from different perspectives? How does retelling perspective affect later recall of events? In the current research, participants retold a story either three times or not at all. By instruction, retellings were either entertaining or accurate. Compared to accurat...

We present a thorough photometric and geometric study of the multimedia devices composed of both a matte screen and an attached camera, where it is shown that the light emitted by an image displayed on the monitor can be expressed in closed-form at any point facing the screen, and that the geometric calibration of the camera attached to the screen can be simplified by introducing simple geometr...

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