Interactive narrative environments offer significant potential for creating engaging narrative experiences that are tailored to individual users. Increasingly, applications in education, training, and entertainment are leveraging narrative to create rich interactive experiences in virtual storyworlds. A key challenge posed by these environments is devising accurate models of director agents’ st...

The learning environment in which material is acquired may produce differences in delayed recall and in the elements that individuals focus on. These differences may appear even during development. In the present study, we compared three different learning environments in 450 normally developing 7-year-old children subdivided into three groups according to the type of learning environment. Spec...

This paper presents the i-Maestro project (www.i-maestro.org) which develops interactive multimedia environments for technology-enhanced education for music. The project explores novel solutions for music training in both theory and performance. It builds on recent innovations resulting from the development of computer and information technologies, and exploits new pedagogical paradigms with co...

The vision-based scene understanding technique that infers scene-interpreting contexts from real-world vision data has to not only deal with various uncertain environments but also reflect user’s requests. Especially, learnability is a hot issue for the system. In this paper, we adopt a probabilistic approach to overcome the uncertainty, and propose an interactive learning method using combinat...

In this paper we introduce iMe (Interactive Musical Environments), an interactive intelligent music system based on distributed software agents that is capable of learning to generate music autonomously and in realtime. iMe belongs to a new paradigm of interactive musical systems that we call “ontomemetical musical systems” for which we propose a series of prerequisites.

As a specialised design consultancy for interactive learning environments and tools, Formula D interactive has gained valuable project experience in designing nontraditional interfaces for digital educational content and tools in the culturally diverse context of South Africa. The aim of this paper is to share the company’s experience in the field using prominent examples of their recent work, ...

Causal learning in childhood is a dynamic and collaborative process of explanation and exploration within complex physical and social environments. Understanding how children learn causal knowledge requires examining how they update beliefs about the world given novel information and studying the processes by which children learn in collaboration with caregivers, educators, and peers. The objec...

Introduction 1 What Exactly is Interactive Multimedia? 1 Multimedia Network Technologies 1 Characteristics of Multimedia Traffic 1 Standards for Multimedia Communications 2 Creating Interactive Multimedia Web Pages 3 Tools, Services, and Applications 4 Multimedia Portals 4 Interactive E-Learning Tools and Distance Learning Applications 5 Media-Sharing Applications 5 Multiplayer Web Games 7 Web ...

In particular in STEM education, disciplines, which require students to understand difficult conceptual concepts such as physical phenomena, different learning strategies have evolved to enhance the students’ learning success and engagement. Many of these strategies include interactive activities such as hands-on experiences, game-based learning, or cooperative assignments. It is challenging to...

Intelligent e-learning systems have revolutionized online education by providing individualized and personalized instruction for each learner. Nevertheless, till now very few systems were able to leave academic labs and be integrated in real commercial products. One of these few exceptions is the Learning Intelligent Advisor (LIA) described in this paper, built on results coming from several re...